AGARTALA, December 10 (TIWN): HRD Minister Smriti Irani will arrive in the state on February 11th to attend NIT Agartala’s Cultural fest ADVAITAM. This year Advaitam is supporting a social cause which aims at removing discrimination toward North East and its people and is named as SAAMYA (that means equality).

The cause itself highlight the fact that North East discrimination is increasing these days and it should be stopped and North East Indian should be treated as equal as other Indians. This fest aims toward a great initiative by raising a social voice against this injustice. Advaitam is a 5 day techno-cultural fest of NIT Agartala going to set foot for the first time in February 11th, 2015. It will circumscribe wide range of technical, cultural and management events and competitions.  It is the fusion of NIT Agartala’s previous technical fest aayam and cultural fest moksha.

The past successful versions of aayam and moksha have observed personalities like Chetan Bhagat, Vishal Dadlani, Sona Mohapatra, Kumar Vishwas, and prof. Gautam Biswas enlightening as well as motivating the participants.

SAAMYA is a social awareness cum movement initiated by students of NIT Agartala under ADVAITAM, it aims to take a stance against violence and general discrimination faced by north-east people in other parts of India. Through SAAMYA, the students seek to appeal to the intellectuals and leaders of tomorrow, to bring to light the extreme problems faced by people of north-east India in their day to day lives, in various parts of the country, and dispel some misconceptions and common racist notions surrounding people of North-East India, and urging them to treat and work together with people of north-east India as equals towards a better India. The students plan to take up the cause on the web and social media through the platform provided by ADVAITAM.