Myanmar troupe in Moreh

Imphal, Dec. 15 : Myanmar is sending a cultural troupe here to take part in Manipur Tourism Festival that began at Hafta Kangjeibung on Thursday.

Link commissioner K.K. Chhetry today told reporters that the 11-member team would reach the border township of Moreh in Chandel district tomorrow morning and arrive here in the afternoon for the performance.

Myanmar will be the third foreign country to take part in the festival.

Thailand has sent a strong team. It shares 17 of the more than 300 stalls. Indonesia too has sent a BMX cyclist team for the extreme sport introduced in Manipur.

The Myanmarese troupe would perform tomorrow evening, the commissioner said.

For the second time, cultural troupes from Myanmar will perform here this month. A 15-member cultural troupe enthralled a packed crowd at Jawaharlal Nehru Dance Academy hall on the evening of December 3.

The troupe performed under a cultural exchange programme between India and Myanmar.

Chhetry said a different group of performers would be performing this time.

The BMX cyclists from Indonesia expressed their willingness to coach Manipur boys in extreme sport, he said, adding that the matter would be discussed at the government level and also with the officials of the Manipur Mountaineering and Trekking Association. The association is the main organiser of the extreme sport at the tourism festival.

The festival which was to end on December 19, will conclude the day after as byelection to the Yaiskul seat is slated for December 19.

The festival venue is under the constituency.