About North Eastern Hill University

North Eastern Hill University was set up by an Act of Parliament and notified on 19th July 1973. The jurisdiction of the University extended originally to the states of Meghalaya and Nagaland and the erstwhile Union Territories of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. With the establishment of the Nagaland University on 6th September 1994, the jurisdiction of NEHU ceased over Nagaland. Likewise with the establishment of the Mizoram University the jurisdiction of NEHU over Mizoram also ceased from June, 2001. Arunachal Pradesh has its own university. However the North-Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology located in Arunachal Pradesh is affiliated to NEHU. By the year 1991, with the completion of the construction of several residential quarters for the faculty, hostels for men and women, a ring road, a modern workshop for the University Scientific Instruction Centre, a building for the Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre, and Guest House-cum-Seminar Complex, a complex of buildings for the science departments and with our own electricity and water supply system in place, the campus took the visible shape of an attractive University in the making. The telecommunication department has set up a fully automated telephone exchange on the campus. This is first of its kind in any University in the region.With its Headquarters at Shillong, it had campuses in Nagaland and Mizoram. NEHU has a campus in Tura (Garo Hills District, Meghalaya). The university main campus is spread over 1024 acres of picturesque, gently undulating and thickly wooded land. There are 67 undergraduate colleges affiliated to NEHU awarding professional and other degrees.

The NEHU, Tura campus was established in February 1996. The campus started with the department of English and Garo. We opened the Department of Education in 2001 and the Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Production (RDAP) in 2002.  The Department of Management was started from July 2006.

Information compiled from:North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong- Website