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The University Grant Commission (UGC) has mandated that each overseas nationals studying successful Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and universities successful the state person to registry themselves successful a caller Study In India (SII) portal. In a nationalist notice, UGC has said, henceforth, survey visas volition beryllium linked to the SII portal.
Until now, overseas nationals wishing to survey successful India’s higher acquisition institutions would use to the respective higher acquisition institutions oregon universities, and the respective institutions would assistance successful obtaining visas for the selected and eligible students. There is nary centralised information of overseas students successful the country, making it pugnacious to way them, particularly amidst respective complaints by the constabulary of them overstaying and successful immoderate cases indulging successful crimes.
To plug this gap, UGC connected the directions of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, has present mandated that each overseas students and adjacent those HEIs onboarding overseas students person to mandatorily registry connected the SII portal from the twelvemonth 2025-26 itself.
UGC has further instructed HEIs onboarding overseas students to name a “Compliance Officer successful the instauration for ensuring compliance of each guidelines nether SII programme and portal and besides facilitating creaseless admission/visa process of the overseas students arsenic good arsenic their harmless and due enactment successful the campus”.
K.G. Chandrashekhara, Executive Director, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, said that the influx of overseas students into the authorities was lone expected to spell up with much overseas universities expected to acceptable up their campuses successful Bengaluru. “We already person Imperial College of London successful Bengaluru, and Liverpool University has signed an statement to found a field successful the city. Now we person besides invited Wolverhampton University to found its field successful Bengaluru. Therefore, the fig of students coming to Karnataka for higher acquisition volition lone summation further. All acquisition institutions registered connected the SII portal should show the accusation of the students. This volition assistance successful making due accommodation, protection, and monitoring for overseas nationals,” helium said.
