By Vishal Gulati

Dharamsala, April 21 (IANS) More than 50 years after India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru took the initiative to open schools for Tibetan refugees, the Tibetan administration in exile is now all set to take over the 71 institutions functioning across the country.

The transfer process, which began this month, will take at least three years.

The schools were set up after the first Tibetan refugees came to India in 1959. They are currently being run by the Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA), an autonomous body under the human resource development ministry, will be handed over to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), an official said. (View full story)