Sangai Festival items limited to home products
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 21 2015 :
With a view to project Manipur more meaningfully to the outside world and give a unique taste, and at the same time promote indigenous products, only the products of Manipur would be showcased and sold at this year's Manipur Sangai Festival.
State Government's consultant and former Art and Culture Commissioner RK Nimai today presided a meeting which deliberated on the annual Sangai Festival.
The meeting held at Old Secretariat conference hall was attended by Deputy Co-mmissioners, top ranking police officers and high ranking officials of different departments.
Replicas of traditional houses of different ethnic groups of Manipur would be constructed and displayed at the festival.
Mannequins (both male and female) wearing traditional dresses of each ethnic group would also be put on display.
Cultural heritage of each and every ethnic group of Manipur would also be displayed more prominently this time.
There would be separate food stalls which sell only indigenous cuisines and dishes of each ethnic group, informed a source.