Guwahati, Feb 23: For the first time, Bodoland University is organising a 4-day Bodoland International Knowledge Festival at the varsity from February 27.
Over 300 invited delegates from across India and 35 international delegates from 14 countries would participate in the festival.
Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh will participate in the festival.
Speaking to media persons, BTR Chief Executive Member Pramod Boro said that this would be one of the biggest events conducted in the BTR. “We want to establish Kokrajhar and the BTR as destinations for education, knowledge sharing and tourism with this mega event. Transforming BTR into an intelligence hub,” Boro said.
He said, “With this Knowledge Festival, we want to create an atmosphere of dialogue and participatory priority‐setting for addressing concerns of contemporary human society which would promote scientific temperament to address social and economic concerns of the society in a post-conflict scenario.”
The festival would document the knowledge exchange for continued learning and praxis, knowledge-action-reflection by different communities of practice in BTR.
The thematic area of the Bodoland International Knowledge Festival is the achievement of social development priorities and key Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 in contemporary BTR and the world.
