Governor invited to open Sangai Fest
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 09 2015:
The organising committee of the Manipur Sangai Festival 2015 has decided to invite Governor V Sanmugathanan to open the festival on November 21 .
The organising committee held a meeting together with Ministers, officials, security officers and private citizens.
Chief Minister O Ibobi who is the chairman of the organising committee presided the meeting.
The meeting commenced with a detailed presentation given by Tourism Secretary Nidhi Mani Triparthy about the festival and its numerous programmes.
The meeting also deliberated on layout plan as well as displaying replicas of traditional houses of different communities at the festival.
It was decided to hold an international film festival for the first time as part of the annual festival under the aegis of Manipur Film Development Society at MFDC Hall.
As agreed at the meeting, a troupe of the Shillong Chamber of Choir would perform on the fourth day of the festival here.
The meeting then deliberated on the ban imposed by an UG group against operating a chartered flight from Myanmar to Imphal on the opening day of the festival.
Meanwhile, Ambassadors and other diplomats of Bangladesh, Norway, Sri Lanka and Japan have confirmed their participation.
As part of the festival, an international polo tournament would be held at Imphal Polo Ground.
Apart from Manipur teams, polo teams from the USA, the UK, Australia and Thailand would take part in the tournament.