The USIEF on Monday said there was neither any change in the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships nor are there plans to change the name or administration of the program amid reports India and the US have decided to sever Jawaharlal Nehru’s name from the prestigious program. “There has been no change to the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship Program, and there are no plans to change the name or administration of the program.
The name was written into the 2008 bi-national agreement,” Adam J Grotsky, Executive Director of US-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) on the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships, said in a statement. He added “There are other programs being developed that do not fall under Fulbright-Nehru. Because they use different funding and have different partners they may have different names, but will still reflect the strong partnership between the American and Indian people.”