The North - Eastern Hill University (NEHU) was set up by an Act of Parliament of India and
notified on 19th July 1973 with the primary objectives of to disseminate and advance
knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it
may deem fit; to pay special attention to the improvement of the social and economic
conditions and welfare of the people of the hill areas of the North-Eastern region, of India
and, in particular, their intellectual, academic and cultural advancement. NEHU is
headquartered in Shillong, the administrative capital of Meghalaya (India). The University
has innumerable under-graduate and post-graduate departments and many colleges affiliated
to it.
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 6 th 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.