India’s education ministry has reported that the number of students travelling overseas for higher studies has experienced an increase of 68% between 2021 and 2022. Specifically, in 2022, 750,365 students left the country for further studies, compared to 444,553 in 2021. Over the last few years, a total of 30 lakh Indians have gone abroad for higher studies, which is a substantial sum of money that could have been spent on India’s own education budget.

In response, Subhash Sarkar, the junior education minister, stated that the government has no plans to establish an “international university of the higher standard” in order to save these funds. Due to stakeholders’ requests, the University Grants Commission has extended the deadline for the draft regulations for setting up and operating the campuses of foreign higher educational institutions in India.

Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has expressed his disappointment at the number of Indians travelling overseas for education, emphasizing that India should have developed the capacity to attract students from other countries