New Delhi: Indo-British relations have come a full circle. While Indians see British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to India, with his 90-member delegation, as an effort to shore up India's economic recovery, Britain is pulling out all stops to woo India.

Noida lecturer Ranjan Kumar said: "For many years Indian students have been facing problems getting a visa for UK, which is the most preferred destination for medicine degrees like FRCS and FRCP".

"The well recognised and popular degrees among the Indian medical fraternity had become out of bounds for students due to the UK's stringent migration laws," Kumar said.

"I hope the interaction between leaders of the two countries will help erase these issues and will also pave the way in solving such problems with other Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand.

"Since the early 90s India is being watched and eyed as the biggest consumer in the world and that's the reason why multinational companies made forays on the Indian soil. Whether it's Britain or any other country, India should strengthen its relations with all."

Abhishek Jaiswal, a Delhi University student said: "Indo-UK ties are of much significance, though here the major beneficiary is the UK. It knows that it can gain from the vast manpower resource that India possesses and also due to the huge investment opportunity in India".

"India is pegged to grow at a rapid rate and is poised to overtake other global leaders," Jaiswal said.

"Therefore, it makes sense for the world to comprehend from that. Of course, as far as relations with the UK are concerned, it would be prudent for us to acknowledge and respect its superiority in various areas.

"Britain is a developed country and technologically well ahead of us. And, that it is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) makes the UK a very strategic partner of India, even as we are proposing hard for a permanent seat at the UNSC."

On the prospects of the cultural pact India was to sign with Britain, fine arts student Swati Khanna said: "Such pacts should have happened a decade back. Nevertheless, it will be a boom for art and artists in the future. The agreement to grant experts in both countries online access to the other's collection of historical texts and images is something I am personally looking forward to."

"One important aspect wherein India stands to gain could be education," Khanna said.