{"id":111502,"date":"2026-01-17T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=111502"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:57:36","slug":"india-to-expand-scholarship-schemes-for-ghana-and-other-african-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=111502","title":{"rendered":"India to expand scholarship schemes for Ghana and other African countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Efforts are ongoing to expand further scholarship opportunities for Ghana and other African nationals seeking to train in India. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to India\u2019s Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), which presently grants over 4,000 scholarships annually across various schemes for students from around 130 countries. More than a quarter of the total, representing 1,100 slots annually, are dedicated to students from 54 African countries under the India-Africa Scholarship Scheme.<\/p>\n

In her briefing to a delegation of 27 distinguished journalists, mainly from West and Central Africa and Oceania as part of their familiarization programme in India, hosted by the XP Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Director General of ICCR Nandini K. Singla noted that fostering people-to-people ties through education remains core to India\u2019s values and foreign policy position.<\/p>\n

With India\u2019s recent geopolitical rise as the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy, Nandini Singla added that it was time for \u201cbrotherly civilisations\u201d \u2013 Africa, whose partnership with India has evolved through shared historical experiences and a common development journey to further deepen collaboration to tap into the advancement of India for shared prosperity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not expecting anything in return..If one part of the world prospers while another remains poor, it eventually affects us all\u201d the diplomat said.<\/p>\n

She also explained that currently, amongst the top 10 countries availing the highest number of ICCR scholarships, five are from Africa with a total of 3,020 students from 45 African countries actively pursuing their studies in India under ICCR scholarships, including 727 at Andhra University and 188 at Delhi University alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is funded by the average Indian citizen,\u201d Nandini Singla stated while adding that \u201cIndia does not receive overseas development assistance. We stopped taking foreign aid many years ago. What we do in Africa and other developing regions is financed domestically.\u201d<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Council for Cultural Relations ICCR has had a longstanding belief that Culture and education are powerful bridges. From its establishment until 1958, the ICCR was under the administrative jurisdiction of India\u2019s Education Ministry.<\/p>\n

In April 1970, the country\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs assumed administrative and operational control of the Council in 1970-71 with a view to making the Council an effective instrument of India\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n

With 37,000 Africans having received training and education in India over the years under scholarship and capacity-building programmes, this latest bid to support more Africa could lessen the cost burden for many of the countries across the continent which are facing a youth bulge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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