India | Updated Jul 15, 2009 at 06:58pm IST

India to register students going abroad

IANS

New Delhi: Indian students going abroad for higher education will in future be registered by the authorities in India, Parliament was told on 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," Vayalar Ravi said during Question Hour.

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