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INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES

The Association of Indian universities(AIU) is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 with membership of Indian Universities. It provides a forum for administrators and academicians of member universities to exchange views and discuss matters of common concern. It acts as a bureau of information exchange in higher education and brings out a number of useful publications, including the “Universities Handbook”, research papers and a weekly journal titled “University News”. The present membership of the Association is 900 (including two International Association of Universities(IAU), Paris, France and The Asian university Sports Federation(AUSF), China).

The Association is substantially financed from the annual subscription of the member universities. The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development provides grants for meeting a part of the maintenance and development expenditure, including research studies, workshops, training programmes for university administrators, orientation programmes and creation of Data Bank of Global(of which Universities( the preliminary document Access to Global Universities is completed). AIU has Evaluation Division, Students Information Service Division, and Publication Sales Division, Sports Division to sponsor Inter-University Tournaments and World University Games:2007, Youth Affairs Division, Library and Documentation Division, Finance Division, Administration Division, Computer Division and Meeting Division.

AIU is likely to receive grants from Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for various youth programmes towards facilitating the inculcation among the youth, an appreciation for art and culture, positive life style, life skills, leadership qualities national and emotional integration.
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