Debasmita Kashyap, the best singer of the recently concluded Gauhati University Inter-College Youth Festival and a meritorious student of the 3rd semester of the English Department of the University, brought rare glory to Ward No. 1 of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation.
For this achievement, various organisations felicitated her with gamosa, japi, citation and sarai at her residence in Pandu Sadilapur on the evening of November 11.
Among those who felicitated her were Ward No. 1 Councillor of the Municipal Corporation Hukum Chand Ali Bakshi, General Secretary of Ward No. 1 Development Committee Lohit Chandra Das, member Abu Bakkar Siddique, General Secretary of Garigaon Eidgah Committee Atowar Rahman, Secretary of Gariya Yuva Parishad Makbul Hussain, and social worker Azizur Rahman.
During the felicitation, Debasmita Kashyap’s mother Santana Baishya Barman and several family members were present.
It is worth mentioning that Debasmita Kashyap, who has been continuing her music practice since her primary school days, has been able to win huge appreciation from audiences in various music competitions and cultural events over the past decade, besides winning several awards, thereby bringing glory not only to her family but also to the greater Jalukbari area.
Her father, Nayan Kumar Barman, is working as a Senior Assistant at the Guwahati Railway Station under Northeast Frontier Railway and is also serving as the Chairman of the Publicity Group of NF Railway Employees Union, a leading trade union of the Railways.
