The National Council of Rural Institutes (NCRI), a registered autonomous society fully funded by the Central Government, is based in

The National Council of Rural Institutes, a Central Government funded autonomous society promoting Gandhian rural higher education, has its headquarters at Hyderabad.

Delhi hosts many national education bodies but is not the seat of this council.

Bangalore is a major education hub yet is not where this rural institutes council is based.

Calcutta has historic universities but no link to this body's headquarters.

The council promotes the Nai Talim philosophy and community-based rural education.

It works to set up rural institutes offering learning relevant to village life and livelihoods.