Growth of Higher Education in Manipur (1980-2000)

Higher Education is a matter of vital interest to the State of Manipur. The higher education in Manipur had been fulfilled with the establishment of the Dhanamanjuri College, Imphal now it converted to University in 2016 by state government. The college was affiliated to the Calcutta University. Manipur University has full autonomy in academic matters. But the Directorate of University and Higher Education is the nodal office of the State Government for higher education in Manipur. Private Aided colleges (also referred to as Government Aided Colleges) are governed by grant-in-aid Rules framed by the Government. The Private Aided colleges depend largely on recurring grants received from the Government and the fees collected from students. Manipur University made a tremendous progress in the field of education after the Second World War and the institutions for higher education in Manipur grew around the middle of the twentieth century. The Jawaharlal Nehru University established the Centre of Post-Graduate Studies at Imphal in 1971 at the instance of the Government of India. The Gauhati University could not conduct its various examinations owing to wide-spread agitations during 1980-81. This acute situation led the Government of Manipur to decide the matter of establishing a separate university of Manipur to save the academic lives of several thousand students in the undergraduate colleges of Manipur from the state of academic deadlock under Gauhati University to which all the colleges including technical colleges were affiliated.