President Lih J. Chen and Dean Wei-Chung Wang, Office of International Affairs announced last July that NTHU would establish a Taiwan Education Center (TEC), in cooperation with O.P. Jindal Global University in Delhi, starting on August, 2011.

President Chen said that "as a leading university in Taiwan, we firmly believe that it is our duty to spread the rich Chinese culture wherever and whenever we can." He further elaborated that "because of the recent robust growth of India and China, there is a high demand in India to learn Chinese language and culture. NTHU certainly has the intellectual prowess to provide for this need in India."

Assigned by the Ministry of Education and in cooperation with O.P. Jindal Global University, a new and aspiring private university, NTHU has formally established the TEC on August 1, 2011 to provide Indian students with opportunities to learn the traditional Chinese characters and Mandarin; and to achieve a better understanding of contemporary Taiwan. According to the cooperative agreement signed between NTHU and O.P. Jindal Global University, the former will be responsible for developing teaching curriculum, teaching materials as well as instructors; while the latter will provide offices and classrooms for TEC. Initially, there would be two language classes to be offered with twenty students in each of them.

Currently there are around four hundred Indian students studying in Taiwan. It is anticipated that the establishment of TEC will undoubtedly increase Indian student's Chinese language proficiency and provide them with a better understanding of Taiwanese culture and society and thereby, increase their interest and ability to pursue further study in Taiwan.

The establishment of such an unprecedented Center is not without its challenges. A major challenge, Dean Wang of the Office of International Affairs believed was the availability of qualified instructor to staff the Center. Fortunately, preliminary search of such talents proved to be quite successful. Miss Ru-Yu Lin, a graduate student at the Institute of Sociology, NTHU who spent a year at the University of Delhi as an exchange student to research issues confronting developing country was available and willing to accept such position at the newly created Center.