Aizawl, March 5 -- The Mizoram Assembly unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday to establish the state's first government-run university.

The Mizoram State University Bill, 2025, introduced by State Higher and Technical Education Minister Vanlalthlana, aims to meet the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020's guidelines to create a teaching-intensive university that will affiliate colleges within 15 years of the policy's implementation.

Vanlalthlana explained that Mizoram University (MZU), a central university, will convert into a research-intensive institution by 2035, limiting the existing 21 state colleges from affiliating with it.

He noted that the NEP recommends two types of colleges, autonomous degree-granting and constituent colleges...