The National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), is an umbrella organisation representing the cooperative movement in India. It was established in 1929 at Madras, now Chennai, as the All India Cooperative Institutes Association and its first president was Lallubhai Samaldas. In 1951 it was reorganised as the Indian Cooperative Union (ICU) by the merger of the Indian Provincial Cooperative Banks' Association with the All India Cooperative Institutes Association. In 1961 it was renamed the NCUI.