number of chevening scholarships forindian students are there any plans to do the same in the case of fulbright scholarships we plan to increase the number of fulbright scholarships in the future and bring within its fold areas such as basic sciences mathematics computer and engineering besides humanities and social sciences moreover we plan to provide more opportunities to the american students to study here on fulbright programmes another important area for us that we have worked on very closely with the fulbright commission is a programme to send young teachers from india to the us who want to make a career in teaching english as a foreign language we have begun selecting and sending teachers to the us these teachers go there as fulbright students and serve as teachers of hindi language in small colleges that do not have access to native speakers in hindi additionally focus will be put on promoting five weeks to six weeks of veryintense academic courses in the us institutions these courses will be on the us politics and the us society besides we will supply material to the english teachers to help them in their professional developmentare there any plans for tieups between institutions in india and the us the us government educational activities through the department of state are basically initiatives that work towards the development of individuals who can influence institutions right now the technical and professional institutions in india are on an equal footing visavis institutions around the world and we dont see any linkages at the government level so we will continue to support individuals faculty members and students but we do not see ourselves taking the lead in forging institutional linkages this will be best left to the private sector and the universities