The National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) has been established as a Constituent Unit of the State owned "The Global Open University Nagaland" established by the Government of Nagaland under a separate legislation of the Government of Nagaland (Act 3 of 2006). NIPA has pleasure in introducing four Master's Degrees in the areas of Public Administration; Good Governance; Political Science; and Planning and Development under distance education mode with a view to enabling all public servants including politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, policy makers and others engaged in the areas of policy formulation and implementation in the Central or the State Government and / or the public sector organisations directly or indirectly controlled by the public authorities.