Manipur University
University in Manipur, India
Manipur University (Meitei: Manipur Taibang Maheikol) is a public central university in Imphal, the capital of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur. Its main campus stands at Canchipur, on the southern fringe of the city, where it occupies the site of the Langthabal Konung, a former royal palace. The institution was set up by the Government of Manipur on 5 June 1980 under the Manipur University Act, 1980, and for the first quarter-century of its life it functioned as a state-run, teaching-cum-affiliating university with jurisdiction over Manipur as a whole. Central status came with the Manipur University Act, 2005, which the Parliament of India passed that year and which the President of India assented to on 28 December 2005; the new arrangement took effect from 13 October 2005.
The university today runs nine schools of studies and forty-seven academic departments, and it serves as the affiliating authority for 119 colleges across the state, of which three are medical colleges and one, the Manipur Institute of Technology, is its sole constituent college. It is recognised by the University Grants Commission and was re-accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with a 'B+' grade in its second cycle, completed in 2023.
History
The story of higher education at Canchipur begins not in 1980 but in 1972, when Jawaharlal Nehru University opened a Post-Graduate Centre on the site. That centre was folded into the new Manipur University on 1 April 1981, and in the process the university inherited the buildings, faculty and laboratories that would form the nucleus of its administrative headquarters and its early postgraduate teaching.
The first decade was modest. Seven postgraduate departments were set up in English, History, Mathematics, Economics, Political Science, Manipuri and Applied Biology, and the university spent much of the 1980s and 1990s extending that base while serving as the principal academic authority for general degree colleges across the state.
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