Tripura University, Agartala West Tripura

Tripura University was the first university to offer higher education. Government took the initiative to pass the Tripura university act on the 2nd of October 1987. Thus, this university was established on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation. Tripura University was converted to a Central University w.e.f 2nd July, 2007 by an Act of the Parliament.

Higher education in Tripura had a late start. Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) College, the first degree college in the State, started functioning under the University of Calcutta only in 1947. Not that there was no attempt in the past in Princely Tripura to establish any higher educational institution. As early as 1901, Radhakishore Manikya made an attempt to establish a degree college in the-then tiny capital town Agartala; but as the proposal did not fulfill the necessary requirements, it did not get approval from the Calcutta University. In 1937, Bir Bikramkishore Manikya, the last Maharaja of Tripura, had planned for establishing a college again at Agartala and an area of 254 acres of land, consisting of undulated tilla land having interposed lakes almost all around, in the eastern part of Agartala, was earmarked for that under the “Vidyapattan Scheme”.