INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY

The IGNOU Regional Centre Shillong was established in the year 1988 initially having the jurisdiction of the entire North East Region of the country. It was known as the North East Regional Centre of the IGNOU, as it is catered to the Seven Sister State of North East. In March 1996 the Guwahati Regional Centre of the University was set up to look after the student services in the State of Assam, Arunachal and Sikkim. The Regional Centre Shillong was then entrusted to supervise the five states i.e Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura. From the year 2001, under the prestigious North East Educational Development Project (NEEDP), IGNOU Regional Centres was established in all the seven sister states including Sikkim. Thus IGNOU Regional Centre Shillong was left with supervising the student support activities in the state of Meghalaya only.