NEW DELHI — Bolstered by an all-time high registration rate of 3.28%, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Tuesday its latest "new push" to finalize a voluntary student tracking database that was first proposed 15 years ago.

"We are launching comprehensive awareness campaigns to build on the resounding success of our 2015 MADAD portal, which currently tracks a robust 41,000 of the 1.25 million Indian students abroad," said a senior official. "Our analysis indicates that the remaining 1.2 million students simply needed us to announce the initiative for a fourth time."

The current portal overhaul, prompted by the need to demonstrate preparedness following recent evacuation crises in Ukraine and Iran, follows the exact administrative blueprint of the 2009 online system plan, the 2015 portal launch, and the 2016 'Students Registration Module'. Internal ministry records reveal that the aggressive 2016 push yielded exactly 6,600 registrations by September of that year.

"While we currently rely on foreign governments to tell us where our students are, this new awareness campaign will change everything," the official added, confirming that modalities for the inevitable 2028 re-launch of the portal are already being worked out.