A call for urgent intervention in Nagaland’s higher education sector dominated Zero Hour today, as MP Supongmeren Jamir warned Parliament that the state’s young population is slipping through the cracks despite its high literacy rate.

Nagaland records literacy at 95 per cent, yet only 29 per cent of its literate citizens fall within the key 15–29 age bracket. Jamir told the Lok Sabha that this imbalance threatens long-term human resource development, regional equity and the state’s ability to participate in national growth agendas, including the broader goal of Viksit Bharat 2047.

He argued that the shortage of government-run professional colleges has become a structural barrier. Nagaland currently hosts nine polytechnics and a handful of private law institutions, but it lacks state-run

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