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Governor to lay foundation of RIWATCH campus

ITANAGAR, Nov 6 : Arunachal Pradesh Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh would lay the foundation stone of the Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions Cultures & Heritage (RIWATCH) at Iduli Village on the outskirts of Roing, Lower Dibang Valley on Nov 7, informed its project director Vijay Swami in a release today.

MP Mukut Mithi, MLAs Laeta Umbrey and Jamin Tayeng would be the guests of honour on the occasion.

RIWATCH is an Affiliated unit of International Centre for Cultural Studies (ICCS), Pennsylvania, USA. The basic objective of RIWATCH is to cater to the needs of research scholars in studying different ethnic groups of North east India and initiate comparative and cross cultural studies of various ethnic groups of different countries with that of India in general and north east India in particular. It will also facilitate young scholars from North east India to have opportunities of cross cultural studies in foreign countries and vice versa. This will ultimately result in Scholar Exchange Programmes with different higher educational institutions of the world, the release said.

The local people have contributed 10 hectors of land, free of cost, at Iduli Village. The contributor of the land is Dature Miuli of Iduli Village, Lower Dibang Valley, said the release. ITANAGAR, Nov 6 : Arunachal Pradesh Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh would lay the foundation stone of the Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions Cultures & Heritage (RIWATCH) at Iduli Village on the outskirts of Roing, Lower Dibang Valley on Nov 7, informed its project director Vijay Swami in a release today.

MP Mukut Mithi, MLAs Laeta Umbrey and Jamin Tayeng would be the guests of honour on the occasion.

RIWATCH is an Affiliated unit of International Centre for Cultural Studies (ICCS), Pennsylvania, USA. The basic objective of RIWATCH is to cater to the needs of research scholars in studying different ethnic groups of North east India and initiate comparative and cross cultural studies of various ethnic groups of different countries with that of India in general and north east India in particular. It will also facilitate young scholars from North east India to have opportunities of cross cultural studies in foreign countries and vice versa. This will ultimately result in Scholar Exchange Programmes with different higher educational institutions of the world, the release said.

The local people have contributed 10 hectors of land, free of cost, at Iduli Village. The contributor of the land is Dature Miuli of Iduli Village, Lower Dibang Valley, said the release.