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India: Open Letter Against National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) Restrictions (2022-2023 Guidelines)

18 March 2022

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Sabrina Tucci
PEN International
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PEN International joins over 20 international academic associations, research centres and diasporic organisations and 350 scholars who have issued an open letter outlining numerous objections to the recent policy changes to the guidelines for the National Overseas Scholarship (NOS).

The letter addressed to the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar, calls for the immediate withdrawal of the new policy clause that excludes students from marginalised communities intending to pursue further education and research abroad from working on