Indian Agricultural Research Institute
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The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) is the leading institution for research and advanced education in agricultural science in India. It was established in 1905 as the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, and was recognized as a 'deemed university' in 1958 by an act of Parliament and since then it has awarded M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. It is financed and administered by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). The IARI was responsible for the research leading to the "Green revolution" of the 1970s. The campus was originally located in Pusa, Bihar and was shifted after the Bihar earthquake of 1934 to New Delhi to a place which is now called Pusa in New Delhi. Next year being the centinary the institute proposes to celebrate it in a fitting manner.