India can be educational hub if it builds world class universities: Rajan

The country can become an educational hub for Asia and Africa if it builds world-class universities, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram G Rajan has said.

He said what the country needs is to create an environment where an educational eco system can flourish.

"We can be the educational hub for Asia and Africa if India can build world-class universities," he said in a press statement here on Tuesday.

Rajan, advisor-Governing Council and Academic Council, Krea University, said this while interacting with students and faculty of the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences and IFMR Graduate School of Business at nearby Sri