DIMAPUR, MAY 9 (MExN): The 2nd Round table meet between the Assam and Naga Civil societies under the aegis of the Asom Sahitya Sabha and the Naga Hoho will be held at Hotel Japfu, Kohima at 2:00 PM on May 13.
A press note from the Naga Hoho informed that resource persons for the meet include Niketu Iralu, renowned social activist and Dr. Druva Jyoti Bora, President of the Asom Sahitya Sabha as the two main speakers. Tiameren, former Minister, Nagaland and Er Levi Rengma, Parliamentary Secretary for Housing, Government of Nagaland will be the Chief Guest and Guest of honour respectively.
The Naga Hoho informed that the sessions will be divided into introductory and technical sessions, where some of the prominent citizens, academicians and Tribe Hoho Presidents and civil societies from Nagaland will be invited to participate in the programme. The round table will end up with a dinner along with the MLA’s from border areas/districts of both the states during which some of the local artists will entertain the gathering.
It may be mentioned that the first Asom-Naga Round table meet was held at Guwahati on October 9, 2015, wherein the two neighbours “resolved in strengthening friendship and fraternity and to enhance cooperation between the people of two states in the areas of Art, literature, culture, trade and commerce, protection of environment and most of all the border problem between the two sisterly states.”