Biren invited to Hombill Fest
Source: The Sangai Express

Dimapur, November 14 2017: Chief Minister N Biren Singh has been invited by the Government of Nagaland to the Hombill Festival which will begin from December 1 .

Other dignitaries invited by the Nagaland Government are Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for MoRTH, Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Defence Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for DoNER, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Judge of Supreme Court, Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Textiles, Information and Broadcasting and Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State for Culture, Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal and Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu.

According to the Chief Minister's Office, Nagaland, Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Defence Minister, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Judge of Supreme Court and Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Textiles, Information & Broadcasting have confirmed their participation.

Meanwhile, Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today visited Kisama Heritage Village, the main venue of the Hornbill Festival, to oversee arrangements where a meeting was convened at Kisama Bamboo Hall and issues related to road maintenance, power supply, security, social work, traffic regulations and others were discussed.

The Chief Minister inspected the main Amphitheatre, tribal Morungs and other structures and called upon the departments and organisations concerned to expedite preparations for successful conduct of -the Festival.

For renovation of roads, departments/organisations concerned and contractors have been asked to adopt shift-system of working by deploying adequate number of machinery and work-force both during the day and night during which police and district administration would provide security cover during night-shifts including regulation of traffic along NH-29 .

Departments/organisations like NHIDCL, PWD (R&B), ECI, Maytas Gayatri, National Highway, BRO etc have been assigned responsibility for road-repair across various parts of Kohima and Dimapur which are to be completed within stipulated deadline while the Power Department would look into uninterrupted power supply at Kisama and other important* areas at the State capital like Night Bazaar at Traders Road and.

High School Junction, hotels occupied by State guests etc.

While renovations of tribal Morungs are scheduled to be; completed by November 25, district administration would look into the removal of all unused vehicles parked along NH-29 Mass social work is scheduled to take place on November 25 in all towns starting from Dimapur to Kohima till Kisama Heritage Village.

Approach road leading to Hotel Japfu at Kohima would be a 'No Parking Zone' for local taxis and alternate parking arrangements would be worked out even as district administration and police would be identifying suitable location/s for parking towed-away vehicles which violate traffic regulations during the festival period.

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