The historic Cotton College will cease to exist with the Assam government today proposing to convert it into a university to sort out several conflicting issues with the existing Cotton College State University.<br/>The premier education institute of the North East, which was established in 1901 in Guwahati, will give away all<br/>its assets, funds and other properties to the proposed Cotton University once The Cotton University Bill, 2017, is passed.<br/><br/>'During the course of functioning of the Cotton College State University, several conflicting issues have cropped up during the last four or five years of its existence. The issues are related to both academic and<br/>administrative affairs, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the statement of the Bill tabled in Assam Assembly.<br/>'<br/>The state government-controlled Cotton College State University was established in 2011 in order to give a fillip to Cotton College, but retaining the heritage college.<br/>''<br/><br/>