India offers 50 Quad scholarships worth Rs 4.17 crore for students from the Indo-Pacific region to pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering at Indian institutions.
India announced a new program of 50 quad scholarships for students from the Indo-Pacific region to attend a four-year undergraduate engineering program in a technical institution funded by the Government of India.
It was part of the Wilmington Declaration Joint Statement by the leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.
“The Quad is committed to strengthening the deep and enduring ties between our people and among our partners.
It declared that we are building a network of the next generation of science, technology, and policy leaders through the Quad Fellowship.
The leaders acknowledged the Institute of International Education’s role in implementing the Quad Fellowship, along with the support of private sector partners like Google, the Pratt Foundation, and Western Digital.
“India is happy to announce a new initiative to award fifty Quad scholarships, worth $500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific to pursue a 4-year undergraduate engineering program at a Government of India-funded technical institution,” it said.
The announcement was made after the Prime Minister attended the Quad Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, in the USA with US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
