Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the state government will write to the Centre seeking Srimanta Sankardeva birth anniversary to be declared as a national holiday.

Sonowal said this during a meeting held with the representativesof Srimanta Sankardeva Sangha at Janata Bhawan on Monday.

The state government decided to officially celebrate the birthanniversary of Srimanta Sankardeva.

Sonowal also said the state government would urge the Centre for inserting the gurujona's life and work as an exclusive chapter in the NCERT curriculum.

The Chief Minister also asked the deputy commissioner of Nagaonto allot the additional 350 bighas of land to Srimanta Sankardeva University.  

The representative of Sankardeva Sangha also informed the chiefminister in the meeting that the Sangha on its own is running 56 schools andfour colleges and requested him for providing government aid to carry forwardthe academic activities.

Keeping on the request of the Sangha, Sonowal asked theeducation department to set a modality for giving financial grants to SrimantaSankardeva Sangha.

The representatives also requested the CM to run theadministration of the Srimanta Sankardeva University with a partnership betweengovernment and Srimanta Sankardeva Sangha to which Sonowal assured to takepositive steps.