National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM), is the only all India body of professional managers engaged in the profession of Human Resource Management, ,Industrial Relations, Labour Welfare, and Training & Development in the country. It came in to existence on 15th March 1980 as a result of merger of two professional institutions, namely the Indian Institute of Personnel Management (IIPM) established in 1948 in Kolkata and the National Institute of Labour Management (NILM) established in 1950 in Bombay,now Mumbai.