History of Umshyrpi College

In the year 1994,The Shillong Muslim Union gave the Eid-gah complex to open the college and then sanctioned initially a sum of rupees two lakhs; the amount was deposited as seed money for funding the college. Over and above, the Union agreed to bear the monthly expenses of the college until the college became viable and financially self sustainable.

The Union consensually agreed that there would be at least two or three office bearers of the Union in the governing body of the college and the college would be a minority institution with reservation of 20% of seats for Muslim students. Thus the institution came up by the side of Umshyrpi stream and justifiably, to the delight of everyone, christened as UMSHYRPI COLLEGE and it was made non-profit making educational institution. The founder members met on several occasions and in one of such meetings, they unanimously resolved to appoint Mrs. Fatima Imdad Hussain as the principal of the college cum secretary of the governing body.

The college started functioning from 1st August 1994. Initially it was started as girls’ college with 27 students, but in the following year, owing to the growing demand of the minority community, it was converted into co-educational institution.

Mrs. Fatima Imdad Hussain was succeeded by Dr. Rina Dhar who became Principal cum Secretary in the year 1995. At the same time Dr. K. K. Bhattacharjee became coordinator who continued to serve in the same capacity till 1998. Again from the year 1998, Dr. K.K Bhattacharjee became Rector and Mrs. Namrata Joshi took over the post of Vice-Principal. Again, Mrs. N. Joshi took over as the Principal of the College in the year 2002 and thence she has been serving in the same capacity till date. With the passage of time, at present, the college has approximately two thousand five hundred students, seventy three faculty and 30 non teaching staff. The College was awarded Minority status by the then government of Meghalaya on 29/06/2010. The National Minority Commission acknowledged the Minority status of the college.

It is in the fitness of thing to note with appreciation the contribution of Janab C. Z . Ghafoor towards bringing the college up to this position. However it is the achievement of collective efforts that makes the college grows to this stage. The motto of the college was changed from the earlier ‘IN THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE’ to ‘COME TOWARDS PROSPERITY’ by taking into consideration of the pragmatic approach towards imparting holistic education: to free oneself from evils; to grow oneself spiritually and intellectually, to eliminate poverty of any kind, for oneself and society as well, to transform oneself from the nature of ‘give me’ to ‘what can I give you ?’, to free oneself from the perception of maximum individual and to streamline oneself to become a resourceful member of a society of inclusive prosperity. Ever since the institute came into existence, it has been disseminating service to cater to the needs of poor and marginalized masses by imparting required and desired knowledge for creating humane and rational society..Janab C.Z. Ghafoor’s health started deteriorating from the middle of the year 2011 and therefore he was unable to perform his duty like before. Owing to the arising situation, as the G.B. deemed it necessary, Janab Sayeedullah Nongrum was appointed as working President of the G.B. on 15.11.2011. It was an anguish of all that Janab C.Z. Ghafoor, the then President G.B. Umshyrpi College, passed away on 11th of January 2012.

On 30th January 2012, Janab Sayeedullah Nongrum took over as the President, Governing Body by the unanimous decision of the members and also Janab A. J. N. Ahmed was appointed as Vice-President. Janab. Idris Khan, present President of the Shillong Muslim Union, was inducted as a G.B. member. On 25th June 2018, our beloved Vice-President, Governing Body, A. J. N. Ahmed passed away and after his departure Shri Moonstar Shangpliang became the Vice-President of the Governing Body.