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Manipur State Award for literature conferred to Kshetri Bira

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Imphal: Manipur State Award for Literature, 2012 was on Saturday conferred to Kshetri Bira for his work ‘Nangbu Ngaibada’.

Governor Gurbhachan Jagat conferred the award.

Governor speaking on the occasion said’ Manipuri language, one of the 22 scheduled languages under the Indian Constitution, with its own script is regarded as the most advanced of the Tibeto-Burmese languages spoken in India. Though, some scholars contested the classification of Manipuri language as Tibeto-Burmese, most accepted the classification made in the Linguistic Survey of India conducted under the leadership of George Abraham Grierson of the ICS from 1894 to 1928. (UNI)

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