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KIAP
IIT K owes the past 50 years of its success to the Kanpur Indo-American Program (KIAP),
a collaboration between The United States and India to build a solid foundation
for the Institute. During the period 1962-72, the Institute received technical
assistance under KIAP to
from a consortium of nine leading
US Institutions. Under the
program, faculty members from these Institutions assisted the Institute in the setting up of
the academic programs and development of laboratories for
instruction as well as research. While the KIAP program officially ended in
1972, the collaboration