India Aiming For Half Million Foreign Students By 2047: NITI Aayog CEO

Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam made the comments while addressing the 18th FICCI Higher Education Summit.

India is targeting enrolling half-a-million foreign students by 2047, Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said today.

Mr Subrahmanyam made the comments while addressing the 18th FICCI Higher Education Summit. He also said technology is going to "blow up" the higher education sector and the universities have to embrace Artificial Intelligence in a big way to stay relevant and competitive.

"NITI Aayog is preparing a vision document for 2047 and education has a separate role in it. One of the important points in this include that, by 2047, we aim to target half a million foreign students in India. We should become the global provider of education by improving our quality, brand value and improve our rankings which are globally recognised," he said.