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With the motive to boost services sector in India, the Government is planning to open its education and legal services to foreigners and liberalize education. Rita Teaotia, Commerce Secretary suggested opening online courses to make it better accessible across communities and countries while explaining the country's approach to open education sector.

She said the intention of Commerce Ministry is to work with Bar Council of India (BCI) to move in a direction which is in tandem with the policies of both while asked about opening legal services for foreign players. The government is also in consultation with the Society for Indian Law Firms for this. 

The Department of Commerce built with stakeholders aims at allowing multi-professional firms to come in and to allow them to increase size of the firms. So, these could be early stage reforms. Once we do that, in the next stage we can have consultation with the BCI.

Opening up of these two sectors is under discussion of the Committee of Secretaries. The UK and the US have been pushing India to open up the sector to foreign firms.

The Advocates Act, which is administered by the BCI, provides for foreign lawyers or law firms to visit India on a reciprocal basis for temporary periods to advise their clients on foreign law and diverse international legal issues.