President Pranab Mukherjee will tomorrow inaugurate a cultural festival of northeast India which will showcase the cultural ethnicity and diversity of the region.
This initiative is one of the outcomes of the recommendations of the M P Bezbaruah Committee on the North East, set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs to work out modalities for building a strong social bond between the people of northeast and the rest of the country, a press release issued today by Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
"The festival will showcase the rich cultural ethnicity and diversity of northeast India. Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland and Manipur will set up their stalls and display a plethora of products.
"Leading music bands of the northeast will perform. There will also be a tourism exhibition, food festival and free dance lessons for those interested in learning dances of the northeast," it said.
The festival is being organised here by Government of Meghalaya and sponsored by the Northeastern Council.
