Sector

Co-op Promoter/Supporter

Contact  detail

+94812498679

General Profile

The School of Cooperation, which existed for 55 years until the dawn of the new millennium was restructured as the National Institute of Cooperative Development with the objectives of providing a new educational approach, enriched with new strategies and methodology with potentiality to face globalization by being deviated from the traditional system of cooperative education prevailed till then.

The National Institute of Cooperative Development was established by Act No.01 of 2001 to function as far as institution free from obligations to the state maintaining its autonomy so that the cooperative movement and cooperative education can face the challenges of globalization.

Institutions affiliated to the National Cooperative Council and those belonging to the provincial Cooperative Development Department are functioning at appropriate levels for the advancement of cooperative education and training sector in Sri Lanka. However, the NICD is functioning as a National Training Institute while implementing Higher Education and Training activates with the patronage of other establishment

Website
www.nicd.edu.lk