Imphal, Nov 20: Stage is all set to observe the Sangai Tourism Festival 2016 but this time the festival tempo seems to be comparatively decline due to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization of Rs. 500 and Rs 1000 denominations.
Even as the state tourism department has almost completed all infrastructural development for the successful conduct of the Sangai Tourism Festival, there is less publicity either through local media as co-incidentally the state media too suspended publication due to protest by Publishers’ and newspapers distributors’ for unavailability of newly introduced denomination as well as currency change.
Source collected from the hotels here in Imphal reveals that, unlike last year there are less tourists who book hotel room for participating the Sangai Festival.
On the other hand stalls book for the festival are now worried on the problems that they might be facing due to the monetization and scarcity of the newly introduced denominations.
