NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT

About NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT

National Institute of Cooperative Management Gandhinagar, is promoted by Gujarat State Cooperative Bank Ltd. in 1995 with the objective of providing management education, training, research and consultancy support to the corporate world as well as to the co-operatives and rural development organizations in India. It is noteworthy to mention that during the span of one decade only, the institute has achieved several milestones and it has been recognized as one of the eminent institutes of higher education and ranked one among the top five self financed B-Schools in Gujarat State.

The post graduate center at NICM have been renamed as Shri Jairambhai Patel Institute of Business Management from 2008-09. NICM Trust is founded by the Gujarat State Cooperative Bank Ltd. In order to make the management of cooperative organizations more professional, it calls for matching the specific but unmet needs of the sector with the formal techniques and skills of management profession. Linking the two are the ‘leaders and managers’ prepared by SJPI through its two-years full time MBA programme and Management Development Programmes (MDPs). Over the years NICM has provided management training, support and research facilities to students committed to rural development and in this process it has brought within its ambit several co-operatives, non-government organizations, government development agencies, international development organizations and funding agencies.