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INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

BILATERAL BODIES

• SHASTRI INDO-CANADIAN INSTITUTE

  • Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) founded in 1968, continued to promote academic relations and mutual understanding between India and Canada mainly through funding research and linking academic institutions in the two countries and by promoting Canadian Studies in India and Indian Studies in Canada.

  • The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) multi-year agreement with SICI was signed for Canadian dollars 3.5 million over a period of five yeas ending on March 31, 2012. New programmes have been initiated from these funds to strengthen academic relations between the two countries. These are :

    i) Shastri Millennium Development Research Grants
    ii) Partnership Development Seed Grants
    iii) Scholar Travel Subsidy Grants
    iv) Grants to support development of Study-In-India Programmes
    v) Study in India Summer Programme
    vi) Student Excellence Awards
    vii) Shastri Institute International Youth Internship Programme

  • SICI is being governed by its 41 Indian Member Institutions and 32 Canadian Member Institutions alongwith the representative of Govt. of India and Govt. of Canada. During last one year, 9 new Canadian Institutions have joined the Membership of Shastri Institute.

  • SICI undertakes India studies programmes in Canada with funding from Govt. of India. 

  • The Foundation also administered, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, research scholars grant and one short-term group project for American school teachers. The cost of the academic programme for short-term group programme is reimbursed by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

  • The Foundation provided educational advisory services to a large number of Indian students keen to pursue their higher education in the United States.
     (www.sici.org)

• UNITED STATES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN INDIA

  • The United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) was established in February, 1950 under a bilateral agreement, as replaced by a new agreement in 2008, between the Government of India (Ministry of External Affairs) and the Government of the United States to administer the Fulbright Educational Exchange Programme to promote further mutual understanding between the people of the United States of America and India by a wider exchange of knowledge and professional talents through educational contacts.

    (fulbright-india.org)