He is a purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition and learned from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India.

Nityanand was born in Mumbai into a musical family and showed indications of prodigious abilities at a very young age.

Since 1986, Nityanand has been learning from Padma Bhushan Srimati Annapurna Devi, doyenne of the Maihar gharana.

[5] Haldipur has received the following awards: SaMaPa award - SaMaPa is a cultural movement, which has translated from a deep-rooted vision of the Founding Chairman, the Great Music Legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori ji, in creating a unique, unbiased and empowering national level platform for presentation, propagation, and teaching of traditional music and performing arts for the artists and the young talents.

SaMaPa is acclaimed as the Cultural Bridge of Jammu & Kashmir with the rest of the country and to have created a new generation of music connoisseurs.