College of Agriculture, Gangtok (Under Central Agricultural University, Imphal)

The College of Agriculture at Gangtok, established in 1996, is a constituent college of the Central Agricultural University headquartered at Imphal — the centrally funded university created to serve the north-eastern states' farm sector. That parentage brings ICAR-standard curricula, central funding that keeps fees low, and degrees recognised across the national agricultural system, including for ICAR postgraduate admissions and agricultural services recruitment. The Sikkim setting gives its teaching a distinctive slant: the state is India's showcase for organic farming, and hill agriculture — horticulture, mountain cropping systems, allied enterprises — is the working context students train in. It holds an A grade from NAAC. Gangtok is a small, orderly hill capital with modest living costs. It suits students from Sikkim and the Northeast committed to agricultural science and public-sector farm careers.