MCRP University was set up by Act Number 15 of 1990 of the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh in the year 1990. NIELIT Shimla Centre is authorized institute to conduct the PGDCA course of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism & Communication, Bhopal (Study Centre Code: 5571).

The course content includes Fundamentals of Computers, Packages such as MS-Office, Computer Languages such as C++, VB.Net, Internet and Web Design, TALLY, Operating Systems such as MS-DOS Windows and Linux, System Analysis & Design, MS-Access.  

At the end of the second semester, the students are required to submit a project report. The project can be based on any of the technologies taught in the course content.