8th North East Festival from December 19-20 in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: Zubeen Garg, the Icon from North East has appealed to the people to watch North East Festival digitally from home.

After successful completion of seven editions, this year 8th North East Festival will be held at Radisson Blu, Guwahati on December 19 and 20. Due to COVID-19, this year the festival will be organized with minimum human presence and broadcasted on all over the globe through digital platforms.

"I have been associated with North East Festival for last eight years. This year due to corona, we are organizing it in Guwahati. The festival will be telecasted across the globe digitally. One can sit at home and watch the festival on North East Festival social channels. I urge everyone to show the same support to the Festival by watching it LIVE!," said ZubeenGarg addressing the media persons on Wednesday.

Due to the pandemic North East's first and foremost source of income and livelihood, tourism has been affected severely and everything has come to a standstill. The focus of the festival will be Growth Agenda for North East Post COVID-19. A new entity NEF Ideation Conclave will have a series of discussion sessions. Success stories of North East Youth - Session will have prominent personalities of the region such as ZubeenGarg, Armstrong Palme, Hima Das, Dr. Thang Jam Dhabali, Niti Deb and many others speaking about their journey. A session Market linkage on Agriculture will have Farmer producing companies of the NER interacting with Buyers from outside, a B2B Meet on Tourism will be organized wherein tourism stakeholders of North East will interact with prominent tour operators of the country. A session on Make in North East will have prominent investors in the NER such as NRL, Patanjali, ITC etc will share their experience of investment in the region. Some successful Start Ups of the region will share their story and interact.

A virtual walk through of North East Festival, will be showcased at 4 pm on both the evenings, will present North East tourism destinations, festivals such as Hornbill, Sangai, Tawang Festival etc, cuisines of the region, dance forms, crafts and the tribes of the region to give a feel of the region. Evening Cultural programme will showcase dance forms of the North East, spectacular fashion show by top designers and models of the region and NEF musical evenings will have ZubeenGarg, Papon, Soulmate, KalpanaPatowary, Trance Effect, FeliFanai, Freaky, Aben, ShankurajKonwar and other top musical icons of the region performing to a global audience.

The Inaugural Session on Development Agenda for North East will be about highlighting the positive works done by the various Chief Ministers of the region in the presence of Union DoNER Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh. The programme will be live streamed in Facebook and Youtube links of North East Festival and can be seen across the globe. Special promotion of North East Festival is planned in major cities of the Country and especially in the South East Asian Countries. More than 2 lakh digital footfalls are expected, stated a release.

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