Voluntary Health Association of Tripura(VHAT) was formed as a state level net work NOGs and CBOs, by some health and science activists in 1988 with the aim to promote the Health, Elementary Education & Environment status of the state through policy level advocacy and conceptual level intervention by capacity building. It got the registration under Societies Registration Act 1860 on 12th December,1988. Voluntary Health Association of India, New Delhi, was one of the main inspirer to form this organization as State federation of Voluntary Health Association of India for the state of Tripura .