Tripura Current Affairs - February 2020
Tripura’s 1st Hornbill
festival was celebrated in Tripura on Feb 8, 2020
On February 8,2020 The Hornbill festival was celebrated in Tripura, Agartala. Chief Minister (CM)
Biplab Kumar Dev inaugurated the 2 day hornbill festival at Baramura hill (in
western tripura).The festival was celebrated for the 1st time in Tripura.
Aim: The aim
of the festival is to raise awareness among people for bird conservation &
to boost tourism.
Key Points:
i.
About Baramura Hill: The Baramura hill was renamed as “Hathai
Kotor” during kokborok Day celebrations on January 19,2020. The Barmura hill is
a traditional culture of conserving birds.
ii.
The 2 day festival includes technical sessions on conservation of
biodiversity in the state, folk dances, skits, dramas on nature conservation.
iii.
The Hornbill festival is a celebration held every year from December 1 to
10, in Nagaland, Northeast India. It is also called the ‘Festival of Festivals’.
iv.
Arunachal Pradesh & Manipur also started organising Hornbill festival
following Nagaland.
About Tripura:
Capital- Agartala.Chief Minister (CM)- Biplab
Kumar Dev.
Governor- Ramesh
Bais.
A 2-day long first-ever Bharat-Bangla tourism
festival 2020 held in Agartala, Tripura
The first-ever 2 days
long Bharat-Bangla Paryatan Utsav 2020 (Tourism
Festival) was held at Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala,
Tripura from February 20-21, 2020 to boost the Tripura tourism sector.
Key Points:
i.
It was inaugurated by Tripura Chief Minister (CM) Biplab Kumar Deb &
organized by Department of Tourism, Government of Tripura in memories of the
contribution of Tripura in 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.
ii.
The key attraction of the festival includes Seminars, discussions,
cultural events,etc.
iii.
The festival saw the participation of Tourism minister Pranajit Singha
Roy, Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner to Tripura Kiriti Chakma, MP(Member
of Parliament) Pratima Bhowmik, MP from Bangladesh Md. Abdus Saheed (who paid
tribute to the Indians, who helped Bangladesh in the 1971 liberation war) and
many other officials of Bangladesh.
About Tripura:
Capital– Agartala
Governor– Ramesh Bais
National Park– Clouded Leopard National Park, Rajbari National Park.
