Indian Students Go to Small Countries to Study, Especially Medicine’: PM Modi Amid Ukraine Crisis
New Delhi: At a time when a large number of Indian students, many of them studying medicine, are stuck in Ukraine following the Russian attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a webinar inauguration on Saturday, February 26, that Indian students have been going to “small countries for study, especially in medical education”.
Speaking after inaugurating the webinar on Union Budget announcements on the health sector, Modi suggested that state governments should devise plans for land allotment for medical education so that India can offer a large number of doctors and paramedics to fulfil even a global demand.
Modi made no direct mention of the situation of Indian students in Ukraine. Reports have been coming thick and fast of students stuck in the attacked country, requesting attention and evacuation.
He said Indian students going abroad for study, especially in medical education, results in hundreds of billions of rupees exiting the country.
“Our children today are going to small countries for study, especially in medical education. Language is a problem there. They are still going…Can our private sector not enter this field in a big way? Can our state governments not frame good policies for land allotment regarding this,” he asked.
