IMPHAL, November 13: The Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh today inaugurated the 1st North East National Service Scheme (NSS) Festival 2013 this morning at the Indoor Hall of Khuman Lampak Sports Complex, Imphal, conveyed a chief minister secretariat statement.
The festival is being organized by Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of Manipur in association with the Department of Youth Affairs, Govt of India, it said.
Altogether 350 NSS volunteers from eight NE states including Sikkim are participated in the festival, it said adding apart from academic and cultural session, a field visit to Moirang will be organized during the five day long festival, it said.
The function was presided over by M Prithviraj Singh, parliamentary secretary of YAS while Dr R K Nimai Singh, commissioner of YAS and Art & Culture, government of Manipur was guest of honour respectively.
The Head of the NSS Regional Centre, Guwahati Sunil Basumatary in his keynote address mentioned that the government of India has sanctioned to organize four NSS Festivals in the NE Region during the current financial year and this NSS Festival of Imphal is the first of its kind, adding that the other three festivals will be organized in Shillong, Aizawl and Agartala during January to February next year.
