Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. NERIST was set up by the government of India, initially as a project of the North Eastern Council (NEC), to provide a system of education to create technical manpower at various levels for the development of the North Eastern region of the country. It is a unique institute of its kind in the country, having unconventional and innovative academic programmes. The approach is to encourage a policy of vocationalisation at the 10+2 level and allow only motivated students to go for the degree level, while others go out of the institute to enrich their profession with some years of professional experience. At any future date if they decide to return to the institute to improve their qualification, they would be allowed to do so. Since April 1, 1994, the institute has been fully funded and directly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), New Delhi. Since May 2005, NERIST has been a ''deemed university''.