Location
NERIST is located in Nirjuli in the Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. It is 19 km from Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh, on National Highway 52A between Banderdewa and Itanagar. It is 10 km from Banderdewa, the border between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, and about 390 km from Guwahati. The institute lies in what is known as the Capital-complex, consisting of (Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nurjuli and Banderdewa) and is easily accessible by roadways to and from any of the neighbouring major cities of Assam.
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