All the State Governments in India were required to set up state level training institutions as per the Recommendations of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC). The then Government of Andhra Pradesh established the Institute as Institute of Administration (IOA) in the year 1976 to cater to the training needs of the State Government Officials. The vision of the organization is to emerge as a World Class Institution of learning in the art and practice of Citizen-Centric Governance. While the mission is to strive towards sustainable excellence in sharing constantly updated knowledge and skills with the personnel serving the government and to promote capacity building and competencies among them.