The Administrative Staff College of India [ASCI] is the college for practicing managers. Ever since it was established in 1956 at the initiative of government and the corporate world, ASCI has synthesised managerial theory and practice to equip corporate managers, administrators, entrepreneurs and academicians to effectively respond to the ever-increasing complexity of managerial issues confronting government, industrial enterprises and non-government organisations, rather than end up as victims of outcomes. For over four and a half decades, ASCI’s synergistic blend of management development [training], consultancy and research has set the pace for professionalisation of management in India and the developing world. ASCI’s mandate is nucleated in the following verse from the Rig Veda:

Let us be together, let us interact together
and may our minds comprehend together