National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (NIAEM), Hyderabad was established in 1987 as the National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India as an autonomous Institute from which its acronym MANAGE is derived. In the recognition of its importance and expansion of activities all over the country, its status was elevated to that of a National Institute in 1992 and re-christened to its present name i.e., National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management.