1961.11.01: November 1, 1961: Headlines: COS - India: 1960's: Peace Corps News - Volume 1, No. 3: Thirty-two Volunteers from all over the Nation gathered at Ohio State University in Columbus early this month to begin 10 weeks training for assignments in the Punjab State of India - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
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1961.11.01: November 1, 1961: Headlines: COS - India: 1960's: Peace Corps News - Volume 1, No. 3: Thirty-two Volunteers from all over the Nation gathered at Ohio State University in Columbus early this month to begin 10 weeks training for assignments in the Punjab State of India - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
Thirty-two Volunteers from all over the Nation gathered at Ohio State University in Columbus early this month to begin 10 weeks training for assignments in the Punjab State of India - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
Both the Government of India and the Government of the Punjab State have requested PCVs to assist in agricultural extension, demonstrating the various ways to use cultivation, irrigation, fertilizers and modern implements.
Thirty-two Volunteers from all over the Nation gathered at Ohio State University in Columbus early this month to begin 10 weeks training for assignments in the Punjab State of India - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
INDIA
OHIO STATE U.
Thirty-two Volunteers from all over the Nation gathered at Ohio State University in Columbus early this month to begin 10 weeks training for assignments in the Punjab State of India.
Those ultimately selected for service abroad will work primarily in the field of agriculture.
This project is directed at the most important development objective in India: an increase in food production to meet the needs of some 440 million people, expanding by some eight million annually.
Everyone Watching . . .
Interest in the Peace Corps is world-wide.
For example, the German magazine "Revue," with a circulation of 1.4 million, recently dispatched reporter-camera teams'to Bogota, Colombia and St. Lucia to observe Peace Corps Volunteers in action.
A "Revue" spokesman credited part of bis magazine's motivation to the fact "we're so terribly glutted with news of war and the military. This should be refreshing."
Both the Government of India and the Government of the Punjab State have requested PCVs to assist in agricultural extension, demonstrating the various ways to use cultivation, irrigation, fertilizers and modern implements.
Volunteers will work with trained Indian extension agents and with instructors al the Agricultural College of the Punjab State.
The training at Ohio State, which includes intensive study of the Punjabi language, and Indian culture, will end December 9. After a leave for the Christmas holidays, the Volunteers will depart for India December 31.
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