District Day Celebration

  • The Chirang district administration celebrated its District Day with great fervour on Sunday as on this very day in the year 2003 the district was created.The programme was started with Prabhat Pheri playing across all the district through the Mobile Publicity System.This was followed by various competitions such as volleyball, kabaddi, khomalanai (Bodo traditional martial art) and photography as well as display of cultural items of different ethnic communities, cleanliness drive and smriti tarpan in the office premises of the Deputy Commissioner, plantation of saplings at district parade ground, mass rally by students, bike rally by Chirang police and inauguration of development works.Line Departments like Public Health Engineering, Agriculture, Sericulture, Fishery, Handloom and Textiles, Panchayat and Rural Development, Industry, Health and Family Welfare, Forest, Social Welfare, ASRLM, Cooperation, Veterinary, Transport and Soil Conservation departments Showcased their activities and materials through setting up of stalls.District Day was ceremonially celebrated at the District Parade Ground, Kajalgaon. On the occasion, Chief Guest Shri Rwngwra Narzary, Hon'ble Rajya Sabha MP along with distinguished Guests Shri Jayanta Basumatary, Hon'ble MLA of 31 Sidli (ST) LAC; Shri Abhiram Mahanayak, Hon'ble Deputy Speaker of BTCLA; Hon'ble MCLAs Shri Prabhat Basumatary, Shri Madhab Chandra Chetry, Ex-MLA Shri Kamalsing Narzary, Senior journalist and President of Chirang district Press Club Abu Bakkar Siddique graced the programme wherein various memories and anecdotes on the history of the district were shared by them.Caste certificates under Mission Bhumiputra, sanction letters of PMEGP and PM SVANidhi loans and blankets to orphanages were also distributed among the eligible beneficiaries.Deputy Commissioner, Chirang, Shri P Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, IAS gave the welcome address, highlighting the administrative history of the district.