Government has approved a scheme enabling supernumerary quota of 15% seats in all the institutions of higher education/Universities offering higher and technical courses for foreign nationals/persons of Indian origin/children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries. This could be over and above the approved intake. It has also been envisaged that one-third of the 15% supernumerary quota shall be reserved across different disciplines in the educational institutions, for the children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries. It has also been prescribed that the concerned State Government/Union Territory shall notify the tuition and other fees for candidates to be admitted under Foreign National/Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) category. There shall be no NRI fees. The children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries shall be treated at par with resident Indian citizens.

The subject of education in India falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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List of Institutes