The Governing Council of the Institute comprises of 30 members with Hon’ble Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India as the Chairman. The Council has besides 21 ex-officio members, 1 Lok Sabha, 1 Rajya Sabha Member, 4 Ministers and 3 Health Secretaries from North Eastern States and Persons of eminence in the fields of Medical and Social Sciences.  
NEIGRIHMS – AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTE
Academics of the Autonomous Institute shall be started initially with the affiliation to the North Eastern Hill University within the MCI frames. The Autonomous Institute has to be upgraded to a ‘ Deemed University ’ to hold examination and grant degrees, diplomas and other academic distinction. For this the necessary Act has to be passed in the Parliament in order to support institutional legal base in autonomy.
The Institute shall carry out important Health Research Projects in terms of regional needs and in collaboration with National and International Institutes. It would also actively participate in global research projects.
NEIGRIHMS – A RESIDENTIAL TOWNSHIP
NEIGRIHMS has been designed as a fully Residential Postgraduate Medical Institute. The sprawling campus shall be a small township with sports activities, public amenities, police station and security network, schools with primary education, transport service, heli-ambulance service (considering the land locked difficult hilly terrain and plains of the North East). Residential facilities shall garner better academics, dedicated teaching uninterrupted research and dedicated patient care.

Attempts have been made to preserve the scenic greenery of the hilly terrain with evergreen pines, streams and rivulets. Special emphasis has been made to preserve its fresh and unpolluted air. The architect designers have been directed by the Institute to make the buildings eco-friendly.  

A long awaited dream of the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences has been coming true to fruition. When completed this will go a long way to render high-tech health care service, high standard research particularly focusing on preventive medicines and to bring relief to thousands of ailing poor people in the North East.