Things much better and lot calmer for Indian students in Australia says Varghese

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Australian High Commissioner Peter.N.Varghese said that Things turning out be a lot calmer and better in recent months for Indian Students in Australia and government had taken a serious and safety measures at state and federal government level and in relation to our police forces for the safety of Indian Students.

“All of those measures, which range from law enforcement to registration of educational institutions and to changes to our migration policy – separating out education and migration ” etc have helped the Austrailan government to manage this issue.As there had been a string of attacks on Indian Students in Australia over the past two years causing an uproar in India.

Peter N Varghese

Also said that External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, who is leaving for Australia Tuesday for a two-day framework dialogue meeting, will be briefed on the issue of safety measures for Indian students in Australia and he expects that there is a recognition by the Indian government that we have taken the matter seriously enough and taken action on it and we would be happy to give Mr. Krishna an update on how things are and a full briefing on the measures that are taken.

“We do regular surveys of attitudes of international students and the most recent surveys have shown that the Indian students in Australia continue to be very positive about their experience in Australia,” Varghese asserted. Since a majority of the student community in Australia – which is around 300,000 – is from Punjab, the Australian government sees Punjab as an important place. “At the people-to-people level,We have a large number of student migration from Punjab. Figures show that student migration from India to Australia has dropped by as much as 80 percent in recent months.”Over time as the economic relationship base broadens and Australian companies get in other sectors, we will see more Australian investment into India. I want to see that happening more often,” the high commissioner added.