Chandigarh January 31, 2020: To promote the scholarship program in India, a delegation lead by Sayit Yusuf, Deputy President of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTF) of
the Republic of Turkey visited Panjab University and gave a presentation to Prof.Shankarji Jha, Dean of University Instructions and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the presence of Prof. Nandita Singh, Dean International Students, Dr. Muneeshwar Joshi, Secretary to Vice-Chancellor, Vikram Nayyar, Finance & Development Officer.
They were visiting Panjab University after having a meeting with the Ministry of HRD and the Association of Indian Universities(AIU) in New Delhi.
He informed that out of 1000 yearly applications around 35 students from India are
given scholarship opportunities to study in Turkey. They are looking for quality students
for education in their country and are v hopeful that Indian students would compete
well.
Says Yusuf shared that Turkey Scholarships are only accepted by Scholarship’s website
which are available for undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees in a range of
subjects.
Their scholarship program is like a package which includes to and fro
flight tickets, tuition fee, health insurance, accommodation expenses, monthly cash
stipend to cover their daily expenses and one-year learning Turkish language course.
It was also shared that since Turkey and India share very close cultural ties, they
are looking forward to having more students to study in their country. It was shared that
at present they have 17000 international students from 150 countries studying in Turkey
and around 4000 students are given scholarships annually.
They interacted with faculty and students of the University Institute of Engineering and
Technology (UIET) and other courses.