- DIPHU — Member of
Parliament (MP) of 6-Diphu (ST) Parliamentary Constituency and Executive Member
(EM) of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), Amarsing Tisso, on Friday said
that the demand for Central Tribal Hill University from the central government
can be achieved if all the social organisations, student bodies, political
parties, and general public put up a united front.
- The MP stated this while attending the 8th annual general
fresher’s-cum social meet, 2025, of the Assam University Diphu Campus (AUDC) at
Lumding Road. The meet was organised by the Assam University Diphu Campus
Students’ Union (AUDCSU) to welcome the new students.
- The meet was held at Rangsina Sarpo Open Air Auditorium at
the University campus.
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- Last year in 2024, the Chief Executive Member (CEM), KAAC
Tuliram Ronghang with his team including MP Amarsing Tisso and MLAs met the
Union Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister, Dharmendra
Pradhan, to discuss the establishment of a full-fledged central university at
the existing Assam University, Diphu Campus.
- “In 1989, an act was passed in Parliament for setting up of
one central university in Assam. It was then in 1994 the university was set-up.
It did not mention the place where the university shall be set-up.
- “Ultimately it was set-up in Silchar, Barak Valley. Santosh
Modhan Deb was the then Central Minister and in Assam Hiteshwar Saikia was the
then Chief Minister. As the University was set-up in Barak Valley, it was like
an embarrassment for the people of Brahmaputra valley,” Tisso said.
- During that time, though having vast areas of land, the
people of the hill districts of Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao were deprived as
they were only given a campus of Silchar University, he said.
