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The Union Cabinet Tuesday approved the establishment of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in New Delhi, as a part of a UNESCO initiative.
The institute will strengthen educational and knowledge base for promoting peace and sustainable development-related research. It will be managed through an operational agreement between UNESCO and India, according to an official.
The estimated expenditure for setting up the institute will be Rs 2.24 billion over a period of seven years.
The executive board of UNESCO, at its 182nd session held in September 2009, recommended the institute’s setting up as a category-one institute of the UNESCO. This was also approved by the 35th session of the General Conference of UNESCO.
"It will put India in the group of select countries with a category-one institute of UNESCO. Currently, there are 11 category-one institutes of UNESCO in the world, of which nine are located in the developed countries, while the remaining two are located in developing countries namely, Ethiopia and Venezuela," the statement said.
"It will serve as a platform for India to emerge as a global leader from the Asia-Pacific region in the areas of education for peace and sustainable development," it added.
The institute will also contribute to capacity building needs of member states with focus on Asia and the Pacific region.
Source: igovernment
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Rajat Ray Fri, 2011-03-18 05:27
The suggestion to distribute the resource is interesting and could be explored, albeit, there may be possibilities of wastage in this in a different way. Some amount of concentration is perhaps useful in putting together and sustaining effective institutions. But the idea of a monolith in Delhi again is to an extent questionable.
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