GUWAHATI, Feb 12 - State Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma� s announcement to safeguard the basic rights of the elderly parents of Assam in respect of their maintenance by their children and successors has been welcomed by the Guwahati Senior Citizens� Association.
The president of the association DN Chakravarty in a statement issued today thanked the Finance Minister and expressed the hope that all the elderly parents who have been deprived so far of their legitimate rights of maintenance would be able to get their subsistence support from the Government�s decision if properly and resolutely implemented.
Meanwhile, DN Chakravarty, also a senior most journalist, has requested the State Government and the universities of the State to approach the UNESCO to include Bihu and Sattriya dance in its �intangible cultural heritage list�.
