Art and Culture Minister Sanbor Shullai has urged the Centre to financially support the setting up of the Tirot Sing Memorial at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (a series of events organized by the government of India to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Independence) and also with a view to simultaneously commemorate the golden jubilee of Meghalaya.
In a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today, Shullai said that the Meghalaya government had proposed for setting up of the Tirot Sing Memorial at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and cultural exchange between Meghalaya and Bangladesh.
He also referred to the email message received on March 19 this year from the Ministry of External Affairs that financing for these collaborative activities can be met from the MEA’s State Facilitation Abroad and Knowledge Support Funds.
“On behalf of the State government, in this regard, a detailed proposal has already been submitted to the office of the OSD (States), Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi vide Letter No.MAC.19/2021/22 Dated 25.8.202. It is also understood that the MEA has had a discussion cum meeting with the Resident Commissioner, Meghalaya House Delhi on 10.9.2021, on the above proposal,” Shullai said in the letter to Jaishankar.
Shullai also said that a delegation from Meghalaya would also be very keen to travel to Dhaka in the event the Tirot Sing Memorial proposal fructifies.
He also mentioned that Meghalaya wanted annual lecture exchange between academicians and researchers of Meghalaya and Bangladesh, publication of a volume on the connection between the people of Meghalaya and Bangladesh and border tourism.
