State companies withdraw support for Divali Nagar

Sev­er­al state-con­trolled com­pa­nies have with­drawn their sup­port for this year’s Di­vali Na­gar, with the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to stage the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tions.

NCIC pres­i­dent Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo told Guardian Me­dia on Mon­day that Caribbean Air­lines, the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board and bmo­bile would not par­tic­i­pate this year.

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“We are not get­ting any sup­port from some of the state en­ter­pris­es. B-Mo­bile not on board with us this year. We're not sure what is the rea­son why they're not on board with us,” he said.