Some Business organisations in India have taken the lead in designing and implementing HRD through various mechanisms such as performance appraisal, job rotation, counseling and feedback along with potential development, training, organisational development, career planning and job enrichment programs. The experiences of such organizations enrich our understanding of the process and complexities involved in HRD. Recognising the need for sharing these experiences and learning from each other, some HRD professionals got together at a national seminar held in Bombay in February 1985. By the end of the seminar, they felt that the HRD movement should be strengthened by an institutional body that could provide a forum for interacting among HRD professionals. Thus the National HRD Network was formed.

The National HRD Network is an association of professionals committed in promoting the HRD movement in the country. It is non-profit organisation dedicated to developing human resources through education, training, research and experience sharing.

The underlying philosophy of the Network is that every human being has the potential to do remarkable things. However, organisations often fail to tap human potential due to their pre-occupation with short term results. The HRD movement has been started to focus the attention of organisations and concerned individuals on how to optimise human resources.

In the national context ,HRD is a process by which people are helped to acquire new competencies continuously so as to make them more self-reliant ; and simultaneously develop self esteem and a sense of pride in their country. Such self-reliance ,self esteem and sense of pride can be developed through a variety of interventions at national, regional and organisational levels.

The National HRD Network functions through local Networks at the regional and area levels and through its Executive Board and its office at Ahmedbad and Hyderabad at the Apex Level. A local Network may be started in a region or city where there are not less than ten interested members. Local Networks functions as autonomous groups and have to register themselves as a Society under the required status in their respective places.