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ration with the International < ..,,,,ation Admini ... „ x lau u , ) b Ms,m ,h K > " -' Allahabad \ uitural Institute ... India. Sinci th< the University has participated in ome eight u is. includin those below, under fundin from thi Unite vrrnment More than one huiuI... 1 Univ. 1 Illinois staff

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thn as for training or consultation. While the ( >lle it Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Graduate Colfoze h a w b< n primarily 1 ponsible for the develonment nf a< ,„i. [»m$, ] tidpation in overseas projects has mainl; involved the Coli sser v Contracts are administer I on campus

Ofi T • I niversity of Illinois at Urbana currently administers thn major .d rvs smaller "overseas" ( ntr for the Agency for International

Development. T h e budgets total about I v million dollars per year in ition to Indian overnment contributions in rupees. T h e primary obje I the three major University of Illinois A I D contracts is to as t with the development of overseas rural institutions of higher education in India and Sierra I one. In addition, two overseas project (Agricultural Economics Project it U t t a r Pradesh Agricultural Univerand the Keio-Illinois Re arch and Exchange Project) are funded b the Ford Foundation.

1. Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (1 9 6 8 budget: $390,650)

Unci, a contr I with AID. the University of Illinois has boon assisting the Go\ nment of tin- State of Uttar Pradesh and the Government of India in developing the Uttar Pi lesh Agricultural University (UPAU) at Pant Na India, the fust land- rani type university in India. Essentially a Coll. e of Agriculture project (although the Colleges of Veterinar M li< h and Engineering have participated to a 1. er degree), the

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