Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 31 2009:
The underground UKLA (MC) has laid down guidelines for the appointment of State Level Kut committee from next year while sensing that the Kut celebration has not been serving its original purposes and true meaning of the festival.
A statement issued by the information and publicity secretary of UKLA (MC), Jamson Kuki laid down that the SLKC should be appointed with the active participation of KIM, KSO, KMA, KWU, KMHR and there shall be no Kut committee without representatives from these major social bodies.
It stated that Miss Kut contest should be abandoned and there should be felicitation programme for those who have achieved position and fame in the society.
Incentives for the cultural troupes should be increased and venue of Kut should be in one of the chief town of the hills like CCPur, Moreh, Kpi, Motbung, etc, it added.
It also stated that the entire system of Kut celebration must be modified or altered in order to make the Kut as a festival to glorify the Almighty God.