After more than two years, China has allowed some Indian students to return to study and has asked the students for the required information in the form. The Indian embassy in China gave this information on Friday. The Indian embassy said that after the meeting between Indian Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on March 25, the Chinese side had expressed interest in considering facilitating the return of Indian students to China and requested the students to fill up the form by May 8.
India was pressuring China to allow the return of more than 23,000 Indian medical students. In the effort, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar raised the issue during a recent visit to New Delhi by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Most of these students are studying medicine in various Chinese colleges.
China promised India on the return of students in February
Earlier in February, China had promised India to work for the speedy return of more than 23,000 Indian students stranded in the country due to its strict visa ban on the Kovid-19 epidemic. At the same time, China assured India that Indian students would not be discriminated against as resumption of their studies was not a political issue.
China bans travel to stop Corona
Thousands of international students from India and other countries studying at Chinese universities have not returned to China since March last year due to travel bans imposed in the Chinese city of Wuhan to curb the spread of the epidemic in 2019. The return of foreign students studying in China has become a contentious issue as Beijing, in pursuit of its strict zero-quad policy, has refused to grant them visas to re-enter their studies.
