Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), is a Central University located in Madhya Pradesh, India established in 2007 and named after former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.The university started its operations in 2008 from a temporary campus in Amarkantak and later shifted to its own campus in Lalpur, 23 kilometers away. The university was established to promote education in the backward tribal regions of India. IGNTU opened a regional campus in Manipur in 2009. A regional campus of the university was sanctioned in 2010 to be in Kalahandi district but it did not materialize.Later in 2023 a Team consisting of Ministry of Tribal Affairs and IGNTU officials conducted a survey in Mayurbhanj district for setting up of the university's third campus.
Former minister Arjun Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician) tabled a bill in the parliament for setting up an tribal university after scrutiny by other MP's an Act was passed in Indian parliament which was published in the Gazette of India, Part II, section I, on 20 December 2007 by the virtue of which Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Act, 52, 2007. The then M.H.R.D. minister, Arjun Singh laid the foundation stone on 19 April 2008 at Amarkantak. The government of India on 7th July 2008, circulated the order of appointment of the founder vice-chancellor of the university. In compliance of this order, Prof. Chandra Deo Singh took the post on 08.07.2008. To provide higher education in other tribal regions of India Regional campus in Manipur(2009) and Kalahandi(2010) were finalized and sanctioned, but only the regional center at Manipur came into existence and an alternative to Kalahandi is currently being searched.
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The Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Regional Campus Manipur (IGNTU-RCM) was established in 2009 as a Regional Centre of IGNTU, Amarkantak. The regional campus started functioning from Adimjati Shiksha Ashram, Imphal. The university now operates from its permanent campus in Makhan, Manipur. Government of Manipur allocated 301 acres of land to the university where the construction is ongoing. The campus offers Masters in four disciplines and provides PhD in Political science and Social work.
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