In future, the Indian authorities are to register all the Indian students going abroad for higher education, parliament was told Wednesday. This will be part of the government's e-governance project aimed at making the process of emigration 'simple, orderly and transparent,' Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said in the Lok Sabha.
A database of Indian students going abroad is targeted for completion by the end of 2010, the minister added. 'The ministry has undertaken e-governance in emigration project to transform the process of mobility of Indian workers and students going abroad into a simple, orderly and transparent process through an IT platform,' told Vayalar Ravi during the question hour.
