GUWAHATI

IIT GUWAHATI CAMPUS

A Brief on the city:

Guwahati is a major city in Eastern India. Dispur is the capital of Assam state.

Guwahati is a mixture of beautiful landmark and fast growing developing city in India. It is a major commercial and educational center, world class institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. This city is a major center for sports and other activities of north east peoples and for the administrative and political activities in Assam.

Education:

Major Central/State Universities in Guwahati comprises of.

1. Assam Rajiv Gandhi University of Co-operative Management
2. Assam Science & Technology University
3. Cotton College State University
4. Guwahati University
5. Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University
6. National Law University and Judicial Academy
7. Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences

Culture and Tourism:

Many South, Eastern and Southeast Asian communities have settled in Assam over the centuries. But civilization in the region did not necessarily begin with the fertile Brahmaputra Valley. Discoveries of stone implements and pottery reveal the existence of prehistoric communities on the highlands encircling the valley.  Anthropological accounts say Assam’s demography is marked by several waves of migration. Australoids, the first inhabitants, were absorbed or dispersed by the Mongoloids that ancient Sanskrit literature term as Kirats. The Caucasoids followed, and their four categories – Mediterranean, Alpine, Indo-Aryan and Irano-Scythian – settled in the valleys. Read More

Important Contact Address ICCR:

Name & Designation Address Contacts
Shri Sankar Prasad
Kakoti Bora
Consultant cum
Regional Director/ Officer		 Annexure Pavilion Shilpgram,
Panjabari Road
Guwahati - 781 037 Assam		 Ph. 0361-2335358 (O) 0361-2335359
(Fax) 9864839444 (M)
E-mail: roguwahati[dot]iccr[at]gov[dot]in;
iccrro[dot]guwahati[at]gmail[dot]com
FRRO:
FRRO Guwahati, Deputy Commissioner of Police
(Intelligence) Panbazar, Guwahati, Assam-781001		 Tel: 0361-2543458
Email: dcp-intl[at]assampolice[dot]gov[dot]in