The overall expenses for the course includes besides the international travel (to and from Dehradun), the course fee, living expenses and local tours as given below:

• Course Fee -          US $ 6000 per participant

• Local tours -          US $ 1200 per participant

• Living expenses -    US $ 1100 per participant

The  participant are expected to find suitable sponsorship for meeting the expenses while attending the course in India.

Financial Assistance to Participants

For the current course, government of India (GOI) offers to bear the course fee of US $ 6000 per participant of the Asia-Pacific region selected by the centre. Thus no course fee payable by the selected participant from the Asia-Pacific region. GOI has offered a limited number of Fellowships consisting the following :

• Living expenses in India - INR 8,000 per month for 9 months duration

• Book allowance - INR 2,000

• Local tour expenses - Up to INR 50,000 to be borne by Govt. of India

The Centre tries to obtain financial assistance for international travel for a limited number of participants of the Asia-Pacific region through agencies like UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA), UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). The course is approved by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India under its TCS of Colombo Plan Fellowship for the foreign nationals from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, Indonesia. Iran, Republic of Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The fellowship covers to and fro International travel and also covers all other training related expenses.