Education expo offers tips on studies in India

SANTHOSH CHANDRAN

DOHA A TWO-DAY education exhibition offering guidelines on courses in various universities in India opened at the Doha Exhibition Centre on Friday.

The Indian Property Expo organised alongside the education exhibition is an additional attraction for expatriates looking to make safe investments in major Indian cities.

Deputy Mission Head of Mission at the Indian embassy Sasi Kumar inaugurated the two events organised by Doha-based event management group, Apex Events.

The education expo is for the benefit of a large number of students who are planning to study in Indian institutions. Information about scholarships in the institutions is a key highlight of the event.

Samiullah Khan, vicepresident at SRM University, pointed to a new trend among students in the Gulf region many of whom now prefer South Indian universities to those in the North. “Parents in the region generally believe that the South is safer than the North,” Khan said.

“Usually, not more than 500 students from the Gulf used to enroll for courses annually but now we are getting a huge response from students in Doha. We are expecting over 100 students from Qatar this year as against the 50 enrolled last year. The number of girl students who registered for engineering and medicine also increased this year,” Khan said.

Most of the institutions have set up facilities for ‘Spot Registration’ and have Internet facilities to facilitate fee payment.

The major institutions participating in the event are SRM University, Chennai, Acharya Institute, Bangalore, Vishwashanthi Gurukul, Pune, Ramdeobaba Engineering College, Nagpur, MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore, Jain International Residential School, Bangalore, and Somaiya Group of Institutions in Mumbai.

Over 300 courses in medicine, engineering, business, hotel management, catering, mass communication, pharmacy, education and law are being offered by the institutions.

Hussain Ahmed, a visitor at the exhibition, said that students and their parents living abroad have limitations when it came to faceto- face interaction with representatives of major educational institutions in India.

A total of 54 exhibitors based in major Indian cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Surat, Jaipur and Thiruvananthapuram are participating in the property exhibition.