IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Step Up

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AHMEDABAD, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- The alumni of India’s most elite colleges have created an organization that would protect the students who go abroad for better prospects. Considering the high frequency of acts of violence reported against Indian students abroad the alumni of IIM-Ahmedabad and IITs have formed an organization called AISA (Association of Indian Students Abroad). The association promises to provide support for the students who are studying in other countries.

Founding president of AISA, Siddharth Priya said that there was lack of support for the Indian students studying abroad and the matter being considered as a sizable chunk of the students in foreign universities were Indians. He explained that the objective of the organization was to create a reach out to the foreign students who are studying abroad presently as well as those who are planing to study abroad. He added that the AISA was an organization run by the students for the other students and the objective is to bring them on the same platform. The IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus said that AISA will also look to support foreign students who come to India to study because their population was growing as well.

Siddharth Priya came up with the idea when he was sent to Paris as a part of the student exchange programme by IIM-Ahmedabad. He felt that finding an affordable place to stay was a very difficult process and the language too turned out to be barrier. He feels that the students who have gone through the experience can provide a great deal of information to the nitty gritties of abroad study to the ones who are going for it.