At the time of the Golden Jubilee Celebration, there were more than 20,000 Nagas living in Delhi including working households, job seekers and students.

[citation needed] The effort to promote education awareness and impart knowledge capacity to the Nagas have been the primary focus of the Union.

From its formative stage till date, the NSUD has been giving admission information and assistance to freshers,[2] besides occasionally conducting seminars and literary meets.

Since its inception, the NSUD has always remained vigilant to all the unfolding of political situations affecting the Nagas, and accordingly made innumerable interventions on its capacity by staging protest,[4] sensitising and mobilising the public, organising seminars on the political issues and human rights, and sending representations to the Indian leadership to impress upon with the desire of the Nagas.

The NSUD has come a long way and gained a stature considerably both in numbers and activities and the Union has changed and restructured according to the needs and has functioned under different working systems since its inception, viz.