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Be cultural preservation missionaries: Rebia

TAP | Updated: September 10, 2017


PASIGHAT, Sept 09: Urban Development and Housing Minister Nabam Rebia on Saturday said a missionary approach is needed to promote and preserve the state’s rich cultural heritage that is threatened by modernisation.
Inaugurating the five-day 51st Central Solung celebration here, the minister appealed to the people to keep the aged-old customary rituals of festivals alive and to ensure that tradition and customs are not at stake, a DIPRO report said.
Rebia prayed to God Doying-Bote and Goddess Kine-Nanne for bumper harvest, peace, prosperity and good health during the effervescent and colourful festival.
“Younger generations should preserve own culture and traditional values and elders and elites of the society should guide them,” he said.
The minister while assuring necessary fund for a burial ground for all religions, appealed to the people to cooperate and extend support for a clean, green and beautiful smart city.
Retired IAS officer Ganesh Koyu said, “Tradition contributes a sense of comfort and belonging. It brings families together and enables people to reconnect with friends, reinforces values such as freedom, faith, integrity, personal responsibility, a strong work ethics and the value of being selfless. Once we ignore the meaning of our traditions, we are in danger of damaging the underpinning of our identity.”
PWD Superintendent Engineer Rotu Techi, the special guest, said Adis being a highly literate and cultured community, should be the torch-bearer for the entire society of the state and “all of us should learn from them for taking the society in the right direction”.
Disaster Management Parliamentary Secretary Kaling Moyong, also the local MLA, stated that such celebration enables social gathering for enjoying a few days of traditional sports and games despite busy schedules.
Lok Sabha member Ninong Ering, former minister Bosiram Siram, DC Tamiyo Tatak, SP Pranav Tayal, ABK President Kangir Jamoh, ZPC Kaling Dai, PMC Chief Councillor Kaling Doruk, and 
a host of senior members, officers and leaders were present on the occasion.Young and old in their best traditional attires presented colourful cultural programme to mark the occasion, the report said.
 

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