India creates 1K scholarships for ASEAN kids to pursue PhDs
New Delhi: With 1,000 PhD scholarships for ASEAN students in
India’s Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs, New Delhi on Monday formally
announced its largest capacity development initiative for ASEAN countries.
The total budget outlay of the scholarship programme is Rs 300
crore and the first batch of ASEAN students will be admitted starting January
2020.
The announcement was made by India’s external affairs minister S
Jaishankar, who stated, “Our partnership with ASEAN is built on the foundation
of shared values. The most fundamental of which is the priority our
civilisation attaches to education and science. Our partnership with ASEAN has
historically developed through a shared quest for knowledge.”
The maximum tenure of each fellowship is five years with Rs 31,000 stipend for
the first two years and Rs 35,000 over the next three years. A research grant
of Rs 1,70,000 will also be doled out for travel, books, etc. The funding
covers the entire cost of study and living expenses for up to five years of the
PhD programme.
ASEAN envoys, meanwhile, have lauded the initiative with the Thai
envoy Chutintorn Sam Gongsakdi saying, “It’s a great initiative and a very
generous one. It comes at the right time. I just returned from Bangkok where we
were talking about an IIT campus in Thailand and next week, I am going to
Israel. So IIT very well fits in the modern context. India is one of the
leading countries in technologies.”
PM Modi had first announced it at the 25th Anniversary ASEAN-India
Commemorative Summit in New Delhi in January 2018.
Source | Daily News Analysis | 17th
September 2019
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