A four-day Northeast festival will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from April 9 to April 12.
It will aim to showcase the vast resource and potential of India's eight north eastern states.
On the directions of Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Dr. Jitendra Singh, a detailed meeting has been held with Delhi-based resident commissioners of all eight north eastern states and senior representatives from the tourism, textiles, commerce, food processing, culture, information and broadcasting, agriculture, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and skill development. They discussed the modalities for smooth coordination of the event.
Dr. Jitendra Singh mentioned that the festival focusing on Northeast will comprise exhibitions, displays, traditional Northeast cuisines, exclusive stalls of books, art pieces and photographs, archive collections based on freedom struggle in Northeast, screening of films in various Northeastern languages and a wide variety of cultural programmes.
In the meanwhile, Dr. Jitendra Singh informed that letters of request to potential "Brand Ambassadors" have been dispatched and the name that is finalized will be disclosed after the formal consent is received.