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Know India Programme during 2019-2020

July 19, 2019

Announcement of 57th, 58th and 59th Know India Programme during 2019-2020

Since 2004, the Government of India has been organizing “Know India Programmes” (KIPs) for the Indian youth diaspora in the age group of 18-30, with an objective to connect them with their motherland and to give them an exposure about the various aspects of contemporary India’s form of Art, Culture and heritage etc. This programme is meant for Diaspora of third generation and beyond. Participants have to bear 10% of total cost and 90% will be borne by Government.

2. In this series, the Government has decided to organize six KIPs during the Financial Year 2019-20. Out of these six KIPs, the Government has already announced three Know India Programmes (54^th, 55^th & 56^th) on the KIP portal in May 2019 and remaining three KIPs i.e. 57^th, 58^th and 59^th will be announced today. The schedule of these KIPs is as under:-

S. No.	No. of KIP	Partner State	Duration of the whole KIP in India	Schedule for visiting Partner State.	Last date of online submission of applications on KIP Portal.
1.	57^th KIP	Himachal Pradesh	5^th to 29^th November, 2019	10^th to 19^th November, 2019	15^th September, 2019
2.	58^th KIP	Odisha	1^st to 25^thDecember, 2019.	6^th to 15^th December, 2019	15^th October, 2019
3.	59^th KIP	Andhra Pradesh	1^st to 25^th January, 2020	7^th to 16^th January, 2020	15^th November, 2019

3. No application of an applicant will be considered for these KIPs, if the said applicant had already visited India under any of the scheme funded by the Government of India. For more details, please click here