A new project by India aims to provide fifty $500,000 Quad scholarships to students across the Indo-Pacific region. Following the fourth in-person Quad Summit, the Wilmington Declaration said that these scholarships would allow students to enroll in a four-year undergraduate engineering program at a technical university financed by the Government

These scholarships will be awarded to students from the Indo-Pacific who aim to pursue undergraduate engineering program at government-funded technical institution in India.

India has launched a new initiative to offer fifty Quad scholarships, valued at $500,000 (around Rs 4,17,40,225), to students from the Indo-Pacific region. These scholarships will support students pursuing a 4-year undergraduate engineering program at a Government of India-funded technical institution.

India offers 50 Quad scholarships worth Rs 4.17 crore for Indo-Pacific students to pursue undergraduate engineering degrees in Indian institutions.

This was reiterated at the fourth in-person Quad Leaders Summit hosted by US President Joe Biden in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

This announcement comes after PM Modi attended the Quad Summit in Clayton, Delaware in Biden’s alma mater Archmere Academy along with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.