Cabinet approves Category I UNESCO institute

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The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) as a Category I Institute of UNESCO at New Delhi.

The proposal to set up the Institute was recommended by the UNESCO Executive Board, at its 182nd session held in September, 2009 and approved by the 35th Session of General Conference of UNESCO in October, 2009.

It will put India into the category of select countries with a Category I Institute of UNESCO. Currently there are eleven Category I Institutes of UNESCO in the world, of which 9 are located in the developed countries while the remaining two are located in developing countries namely, Ethiopia and Venezuela.