Assam gives one-time financial assistance to Rongali Bihu celebration committees

Guwahati: In to start with of its type initiative, Assam govt supplied just one-time financial guidance to Rongali Bihu celebration committees. Under this Rs. 1.5 lakhs will be supplied 1265 Bihu committees of 30 districts of the point out.

Assam Main Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ceremonially released the distribution of one particular-time monetary support to Rongali Bihu celebration committees at a function structured by the Cultural Affairs Section at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati.

It is to be described that the State governing administration has resolved to offer the just one time monetary aid only to all those Bihu celebration committees which organise Rongali Bihu functions from Sankranti to the 6th day of the Bohag thirty day period of Assamese calendar each and every yr and are minimal 10 decades previous.

Below this initiative, the Main Minister dispersed Rs. 1.5 lakhs for every committee to 138 of committees of Kamrup (Metro) and 142 of committees of Kamrup district. Altogether 1265 Bihu committees of 30 districts will be offered this economical guidance and for this objective the Society Affairs Section has allocated a sum of Rs. 18.97 crore.

Sarma stated that the Point out government has a bounded obligation to operate for socio-financial improvement of the people today of the Point out as well as marketing the State’s wealthy lifestyle.

He claimed that thinking of the socio-cultural importance of Bihu for the people of Assam, the Point out govt has made a decision to offer just one-time economical aid to the Rongali Bihu committees that manage Bihu functions from Sankranti to the 6th day of the Bohag thirty day period of Assamese calendar every 12 months and are minimum 10 many years aged.

Underlining the history of Rongali Bihu which was initially celebrated for seven days, the Chief Minister urged the Bihu committees to preserve its originality so that the youth could recognize its correct sort rather of looking at Bihu just as a cultural perform. The Main Minister also named upon the Bihu celebration committees to use gamosa which are created regionally in the handlooms as an alternative of electricity loom at Bihu functions.