The Quality Council of India (QCI) recognized NECU as a Certifying Body for Traditional Community Healthcare Providers (TCHPs) in 2018. Quality Council of India (QCI) in their documents Section 3, Section 4, and Section 5 for Voluntary Personnel Certification of individuals desirous of obtaining Traditional Community Health Practitioners (TCHPs) Certificate in one or more of the following streams of practices as per ISO17024.
In 2020, NECU achieved National and International recognition by being accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) under the provisions of ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and the International Accreditation Forum. NECU is the first University in the country to get this recognition. NECU PrCB PR 006 has successfully completed its reaccreditation process under NABCB in 2023.
North East India has been the meeting point of many communities, faiths, and cultures, home to more than 166 separate tribes speaking a wide range of languages. Some groups have migrated over the centuries from places as far as South East Asia and Mongolia. They retain their cultural traditions and values but are beginning to adapt to contemporary lifestyles. With the diverse and rich culture, there is also the Traditional Healers who have been the main healthcare providers. The NE is largely connected only by roads, in many places only footpaths and trekking trails. The TCHPs however are found almost everywhere, even in the remotest of areas where no conventional healthcare facilities exist.
The NECU PrCB is committed to having such service providers duly recognized. Even if at times it has taken the NECU PrCB teams two days of travelling and a few hours of trekking to reach a TCHP candidate for Certification, the NECU PrCB teams have ventured on. In this way, NECU PrCB has been able to evaluate and certify TCHPs from Tripura (twice), Assam (Jorhat, Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao, Udalguri, Baksa & Dhemaji), Nagaland (Dimapur & Tuensang), and Meghalaya.
As a Certifying Body for Traditional Community Healthcare Providers, to recognize Healers from the region in particular and country in general; through an internationally recognized system of assessment, selected traditional healers who are competent and skilled and who have been rendering effective healthcare to society will be evaluated and certified to give them national and international recognition.
The applicant shall possess MSCs for TCHPs as detailed in clause 0.2 of Sec.3 of QCI TCHP/ Ver 3.0 Jul 2019 for the relevant scope applied.
The applicant shall submit duly filled application form along with:
Three years after Asom (Assam) had come under the control of the British, the Baptist Missionary Society (B.M.S) or the English Baptists through the Serampore Mission, opened a school at Guwahati in 1826. Soon after, schools were opened at Cherrapunji, Mawsmai and Mawmluh, marking the beginning of Khasi literature. In 1836, two American Missionary couples came to Sadiya, and soon moved to the hills.
