UPICON, is a premier consultancy organization with it headquarter at Kanpur, a leading industrial city of the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India. UPICON was established in 1974 by the Government of UP. It was further restructured in 1976 by the apex financial institutions of the country such as Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) and Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) .The consultancy services from UPICON cover socio economic surveys, industrial surveys, evaluation of schemes of the Central State Govt. census surveys. The services also cover project identification, Technology transfer, preparation of project reports, assessment of market demand and potentially demand forecasting, revival and modernization of sick industrial units, infrastructure and area development studies, management and organizational studies and other relared services to industrial and institutions.