Ties strengthened between India and South Carolina

South Carolina is broadening its connection with India, the world’s second most populous nation, with the help of Ratan Tata.  He has been called the father of modern industry in India and is funding fellowships that will pay for five Indian students to work toward automotive engineering degrees at Clemson University. Tata received an honorary Ph.D. in automotive engineering from Clemson last year and left impressed to the extent that he has agreed to fund the fellowships through Tata Trusts, the nonprofit charity where he is now chairman. The fellows will arrive from India’s PSG College of Technology in time for fall semester and will be studying in a state that has sought to strengthen economic ties with India Several Clemson officials see the fellowships as providing new economic and educational opportunities on both sides of the globe.