Which international financial institution has collaborated with the Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Sudhar Nigam (UPBSN) for land reclamation projects ?
World Bank
The institution that has worked with the Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Sudhar Nigam on land reclamation is the World Bank.
UPBSN was created to reclaim sodic land, the usar soil whose high exchangeable sodium and alkalinity make it unfit for cultivation. The World Bank financed successive phases of the Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands Reclamation Project, under which gypsum is applied, drainage and field channels are built, and green manure and paddy are introduced so that the treated plots return to production, with beneficiary water-user groups managing the works.
The other institutions play different roles. The International Monetary Fund lends for balance-of-payments support to countries, not for state-level land projects. The Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank do lend for infrastructure, but the sodic-land reclamation programme in Uttar Pradesh is the World Bank's long-running association.
Hence, the answer is the World Bank.
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