Nagaland: LS MP raises critical issue in Parl

State’s lone Lok Sabha MP, Supongmeren Jamir, on Friday raised a critical issue concerning the development and future of Nagaland’s youth during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha.
Drawing attention to Nagaland’s literacy rate of 95%, Jamir underscored that only 29% of the literate population was within the crucial 15-29 age group.
He stated that addressing this gap was fundamental for Nagaland to achieve: regional equity, human resource development, sustainable economic growth, stronger national integration and convergence with the national vision of “Viksit Bharat 2047”.
Highlighting a significant infrastructural gap, the MP pointed out that while Nagaland has nine polytechnic colleges and three private law colleges, but lacked government-run institutions for professional higher education.
He argued that absence of such institutions hindered the state’s potential and forces youth to seek opportunities elsewhere.
Jamir said that Nagaland urgently required government colleges in the core professional streams of law and engineering.
To empower Naga youth and ensure they were architects of the state’s progress, Supongmeren Jamir appealed to the Centre for establishment of a central law college and a government engineering college.
MP stressed that such institutions were not merely infrastructure but a foundation for empowerment, innovation, and equitable growth.