
Established in 1956 at the initiative of the government and the corporate sector, the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, has pioneered post-experience management education in India. ASCI equips corporate managers, administrators, entrepreneurs and academicians with the skills to synthesize managerial theory and practice and respond to the ever-increasing complexity of managerial issues confronting government, industrial enterprises, and non-government organizations.
The Administrative Staff College of India is an institution of excellence and national importance. ASCI is a registered society by the Constitution. It is an autonomous, self-supporting, public-purpose institution with the objectives of a think-tank for policy inputs and to build the capacities of practicing professionals in the management of government and business enterprises.
At the apex of its governance structure is a policy-setting and oversight body, the Court of Governors (CoG). It is a virtual who’s who of eminent professionals, public figures, and industry leaders who have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of specialization in education, enterprise, administration, management, and governance spanning a wide variety of sectors like agriculture, banking, engineering, economics, the judiciary, law, manufacturing, science and technology, and public administration.
The current Chairman, Sri K Padmanabhaiah, IAS (Retd), was the Former Home Secretary, Government of India.
Dr. Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar (1982 batch AP Cadre IAS officer) is currently the Director General of Administrative Staff College of India.
He also hold the following positions.
Capacity building and applied research assignments constitute the bedrock of the activities of ASCI. They have the larger societal benefit and public good as the key cornerstones. ASCI integrates economic, social, cultural, financial, technological, regulatory, human, organizational, and environmental aspects into its management training and action-research initiatives for addressing issues of topical interest and current concern to the government and the industry. With its focus on policy, strategy, management, governance, regulation and socio-economic impact evaluation, ASCI brings knowledge inputs, informed advice, best practice and innovative ideas to bear on its training, policy advocacy, advisory and implementation-assistance services. In the process, it provides opportunities to State and Central Government Departments and Ministries in India and abroad and the industry, to develop sustainable policies, devise inclusive strategies and deploy robust plans towards improved economic performance, human development and social progress.
As a result, ASCI enjoys the trust and confidence of the government and industry and is relied upon and entrusted with assignments of varied scale, scope, sweep, spread and specialisation.
ASCI has on its rolls, a complement of about 35 inter-disciplinary faculty members, who have well-rounded (academic and industry) experience in wide range of disciplines and domains. This core team is assisted by a strong contingent of academic and research support staff. The faculty and research teams, based on their domain expertise and research interests, operate from the following centres:
The translation of the full Sloka is:
“Meet together Talk together May your minds comprehend alike Common be your action and achievement Common be your thoughts and intentions Common be the wishes of your hearts ….So there may be thorough union among you” – College Monogram, chosen from the “Rigveda” X.191.
It is these ideals, values and principles guide the knowledge-exchange and experience-sharing that set ASCI apart as a unique institution and make it a much sought-after learning forum for young managers and top officials alike from the government, public and private sectors, from within and outside India.