About Us nbsp Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research IGIDR is an advanced research institute established and fully funded by the Reserve Bank of India for carrying out research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view IGIDR was registered as an autonomous society on November and as a public trust in January On December the campus was inaugurated by Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India Subsequently the Institute was recognized as a Deemed University under Section of the UGC Act Starting as a purely research institution it rapidly developed into a full-fledged teaching cum research organisation when it launched a Ph D program in the field of development studies in The objective of the Ph D programme is to produce researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds who can address issues of economics energy and environment policies In the institute initiated the M Phil programme The M Sc programme Read More