It was established in 1973 by Industrial Finance Corporation of India and is located in Gurgaon, a commercial hub near the Indian capital of New Delhi.

[6] On August 24, 2014, MDI inaugurated its second campus in Murshidabad, West Bengal with the launch of its Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM).

The MDI library has a collection of over 60,000 books, in addition to electronic resources which include e-books, journals, databases, audio-visual materials, CDs/DVDs, e-journals, reports, case studies, conference proceedings, training manuals etc.

[11] Thus, India’s first full-time Executive PGDM program, called ‘National Management Programme (NMP)’ was created with a 15-month curriculum.

[12] The core objective of the program was to develop appreciate mindsets across the three sectors and provide opportunity to learn from each other.

[15] The program, originally restricted to top executives nominated by their organisations, eventually became open for general public applications also, and was MDI’s flagship programme till 1994.