Sarbananda Sonowal, the Chief Minister of Assam held a meetingwith the representatives of 22 indigenous Sahitya Sabhas (Literary Bodies) atBrahmaputra State Guest House on Tuesday.

Reportedly, Sonowal announced that state government would provide Rs. 10 crores to Corpus Fund of Asom Sahitya Sabha, Rs. 5 crore to Bodo Sahitya Sabha and Rs. 3 crore each to the other indigenous Sahitya Sabhas as one time grant.

Accordingly, Asom Sahitya Sabha would be able to derive anamount of Rs. 80 lakh annually as interest from the corpus fund while BodoSahitya Sabha would receive Rs. 40 lakh and other indigenous Sahitya Sabhaswould get Rs. 24 lakh each annually.

The Chief Minister also announced that the state government would provide one-time financial grant of Rs. 50 thousand to one thousand new writers belonging to various communities of the state under 'Bhasha Gaurav Achoni' which was a budget announcement.

Chief Minister Sonowal urged the indigenous literary bodies toput emphasis on research works for preservation and promotion of indigenouslanguage and culture and assured all help from the state government in thisregard.

In the meeting held in Brahmaputra guest house today, the representativesof Asom Sahitya Sabha, Bodo Sahitya Sabha, Indigenous Tribal Sahitya SabhaAssam, Deori Sahitya Sabha, Dimasa Sahitya Sabha, Asom Nepali Sahitya Sabha,Nikhil Rabha Sahitya Sabha, Karbi Sahitya Sabha, Mising Sahitya Sabha, NikhilBishnupriya Sahitya Sabha, Purbanchal Tai Sahitya Sabha, Tiwa Sahitya Sabha,Asom Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Garo Sahitya Sabha, Moran Sahitya Sabha, AsomChah Janagusti Sahitya Sabha, Sonowal Kachari Sahitya Sabha, Kurukh SahityaSabha, Konch Rajbangshi Sahitya Sabha, Shautal Sahitya Sabha, Mundari SahityaSabha, Sarania Kachari Sahitya Sabha has taken part.  

Minister for Commerce and Industries Chandra Mohan Patowary, Media Advisor to the Chief Minister Hrishikesh Goswami, Legal Advisor to the Chief Minister Shantanu Bharali, Commissioner & Secretary of Primary and Secondary Education department Pritam Saikia were present in the meeting.

CM Sarbananda Sonowal hoped that this scheme would be able to inspire young generation writers to engage in literary works in different indigenous languages of the state.