Barak Festival 2025                     

Objective: ‘Barak Festival’ is a signature event of the KRC Foundation. It will be organised at Silchar, Cachar, Assam, India from 10-12 January every year.

Mission: Through the ‘Barak Festival’,  unite NE India and develop a socio-economic platform for the development of NE India by ‘connecting the unconnected’.

Vision: To make the ‘Barak Festival’ an important calendar event of NE India through a PPP model where all the stakeholders are taken into one platform.

Knowledge Resource Centre Foundation (KRC Foundation) is a diverse consulting organisation, a think tank that is very active in the North-eastern region of India and is committed to connecting and developing the region through its advocacy, media communication, and consulting activities.

KRC Foundation has been working with the philosophy of ‘5E for Success”.

5E stands for Education

Employment

Employability

Entrepreneurship and

Emotional Intelligence

KRC management team believes that these 5Es are instrumental towards the Personal, Professional and Social Success of any individual community or entity.

Broadly KRC Foundation is working in five distinct verticals-

Training, Placements & Research |Entrepreneurship |Media & Communication | Consulting | Events |

Let’s connect the unconnected is the mission of the organisation where we have developed all our products and services to achieve the goal of connecting people, organisations and government to the unconnected. 

Barak Valley region of Assam comprising three districts Cachar, Karimganj and Hailkandi has key advantages:

·       2nd largest market in NE India with 50+ Lac population

·       Well connected with 5 neighbouring states. 2nd Gateway to South Asian Countries.

·       Peaceful, Potential and Progressive region for Education, Enterprise and Investment

·       It is also known as the Cultural Capital of Assam. It is a source of HR Capital of the region.

·       Bring Barak Valley to the Education, Tourism, Cultural, Healthcare, & Investment Map of the region and country.

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The southern region of Assam, ‘Barak Valley’, consists of three districts namely Cachar, Sribhumi (Karimganj) and Hailakandi. As of the 2021 census, the population of Barak Valley in Assam was 4,377,612. 

Other details about the population of Barak Valley: 

·        Literacy: The literacy rate in Barak Valley is 76.27%. 

·        Cachar: The largest district in Barak Valley, with a population of around 19 lakhs. 

·        Silchar: The second-largest city in Assam and the headquarters of Cachar district. 

·        Multi-cultural: The Barak Valley is a multi-cultural, multi-religious, and multi-lingual 

         region. 

·        Manipuris: There are about 195 Manipuri villages in the Valley, with a population of about 2.5    lakhs. 

    Education, Culture, Trade & Commerce: Barak Valley is the hub of cultural bonhomie,            education, trade and commercial activities of Assam. 

·        Geographical advantages: Barak Valley is connected with five states of NE states within 300        Kms

1. Silchar- Aizawl: 172 Kms

2. Silchar- Agartala: 276 Kms

3. Silchar- Imphal: 276 Kms

4. Silchar- Guwahati: 302 Kms

5. Silchar- Dimapur: 280 Kms

AIR: Silchar is directly connected by AIR from Kolkata, New Delhi, Guwahati, Imphal, Shillong, and Dimapur.

RAIL: Silchar has the oldest rail network and is connected with New Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Agartala, Lumding, Arunachal Pradesh 

ROAD: Silchar is well connected by road with the five neighbouring states of Northeast, namely Guwahati, Shillong, Aizwal, Imphal, Agartala, Dimapur, Haflong etc.

RIVERWAYS: There has been a river navigation system in the Barak River for ages but due to technical reasons the system is not in use though there are government initiatives in the pipeline to restart the system.