Alliance Française de Delhi is registered under India’s Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860. It is an Indian non-for-profit organization, both legally and financially independent from its mother institution, the Fondation Alliance française. in Paris. AFD is funded through its students’ admission fees (6,262 admissions in 2008), the revenues its Translation cell generates, the receipts from its gallery’s and auditorium’s booking and its members’ subscriptions. Like a small number of Alliance française Centres throughout the world, AFD is given further support by the Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, which puts a number of French public servants at its disposal, namely a director, an academic director and a library director. Alliance française de Delhi is also actively supported by the French Embassy in India.