Blue Waters boosts Divali Nagar sponsorship as state agencies pull out

As sev­er­al state agen­cies—in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB), Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB) and Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM)—with­draw their spon­sor­ship of Di­vali Na­gar, Blue Wa­ters has in­creased its fi­nan­cial com­mit­ment to the an­nu­al cul­tur­al fes­ti­val, be­com­ing an of­fi­cial Di­a­mond spon­sor for its 40th an­niver­sary.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC), which or­gan­is­es the event, an­nounced the strength­ened part­ner­ship in a me­dia re­lease on Fri­day, de­scrib­ing Blue Wa­ters as a long­stand­ing sup­port­er of Di­vali Na­gar.

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The in­creased spon­sor­ship comes as the fes­ti­val pre­pares to mark four decades of cel­e­brat­ing and pre­serv­ing In­di­an cul­ture and her­itage, against the back­drop of the with­draw­al of sup­port from sev­er­al state agen­cies.