The Charing-based Swahid Maniram Dewan College in Sivasagar district will hold a national-level seminar on "Development of tourism in North-east India: its impact on the socio-economic status of the people in the region" on its premises on November 20 and 21. Vice- Chancellor of Dibrugarh University, Dr Kulendu Pathak, has been invited to inaugurate the two-day seminar which is being sponsored by University Grants Commission.
Convener of the media cell of Swahid Maniram Dewan College Hemanga Ranjan Chutia said professor Sheela Borah, Director of the department of tourism of Dibrugarh University, would deliver the keynote speech. All the resource persons invited for each of the four sessions planned for the seminar have already confirmed their participation, he added. Chutia, who teaches English in the college, pointed out that a number of student participants have sent abstracts of research paper for the seminar. Tourism is an add-on course of study in several colleges of Assam, he said. Delegates from different North-eastern States and other parts of the country are expected to attend. Principal of Swahid Mani-ram Dewan College Dr LC Borah, who is also the chairman of the organizing committee of the national-level seminar, said free transport facilities have been arranged for the participants on both days of the seminar. Transportation will be available from the ASTC bus stand at Gaurisagar.
