Indira Gandhi Institute of Co-operative Management (IGICM) was established with the mission to inject the professionalization of Management in the Co-operative enterprises. Indira Gandhi Institute is one of the 19 Institutes in the country functioning under the administrative control of National Council for Co-operative Training, New Delhi, funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Co-operation, Government of India. Institute is located at Block-B, Sector-18, Rajajipuram, Lucknow. The institute offers need based job oriented training programmes suiting to the target group of officers of government department and co-operative institutions. The institute has been acting as a nodal agency for various training, research and consultancy needs of the Co-operative institutions and department in the state.