National Productivity Organisation (NPO) is a Government Department under the Ministry of Industries established in 1989. It is a national level specialized organisation to promote productivity and thereby accelerate pace of economic development through its multidimensional activities like creation of productivity awareness, development of productivity infrastructure and implementation of productivity improvement programme. NPO is the only organisation responsible for formulation and implementation of productivity policy of the Government. NPO also implements the plans and programmes of the Tokyo based Asian Productivity Organization (APO) which is an intergovernment body for the Asia Pacific region.