This program intends to provide an opportunity for sharing of expertise and knowledge by the public sector universities/ Degree Awarding Institutes with learned expatriates or foreign scholar from a reputed universities/ research organization abroad. This can be achieved by way of engaging Visiting Scholars in the following: 

1.   Graduate teaching and collaborative research.

2.   Conducting workshops, seminars and other thematic informal teaching.

3.   Supervising and advising on a specific research techniques to advanced PhD students, and /or faculty.

4.   To assist in establishing laboratories in new and emerging disciplines.

5.   Short courses in such discipline where local expertise are not available.