BANGALORE: It’s welcome news for Indian education system as five of county’s universities have received consent from the University Grants Commission to take forward the ‘Connect India Program’, a revolutionary new initiative. This particular program plans to educate around 200 U.S. based students on the cultural front and societal histories of India, as reported by the American Bazaar.

The universities that are pitched upon to teach this program include the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Universities of Calcutta, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mysore. The program hopes to bring around 200 U.S. students to Indian universities each semester within the next couple of years and the CIP will institute a course of study that will include lessons on India’s culture, heritage, religions, languages, and other such fields of interest.

The course work is set to last about 4-6 weeks each, and will act as a crash course in highlighting the major points of Indian history. The program could officially be launched in the month of October or November, while students will begin to come into India at some point next year. The schools are looking to schedule the courses during vacation times in India, so that faculty has spare time to devote to teaching.

CIP was first proposed as part of the U.S.-India Higher Education Dialogue, which was conducted between the two nations almost exactly two years ago. Though the exact amount of money that each of the five schools will obtain from the UGC, the University of Calcutta vice-chancellor Suranjan Das revealed to that his school will receive a total of 100 lakh (1 crore, or around $16,666),reports TOI.  

Full details of the courses or any information related to it has not been released, whether if each university will teach the exact same courses or each school will adapt different courses to suit the talents of each school’s faculty, or if they will be the same curriculum being taught in all five places.

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