The 44th Kokborok Day

22 January 2022 Current Affairs:Kokborok Day, also known as Tripuri Language Day, is observed annually on January 19th throughout the Indian state of Tripura with the goal of developing the Kokborok language.

Highlights:

• Kokborok Day, also known as Tripuri Language Day, is observed annually on January 19th throughout the Indian state of Tripura with the goal of developing the Kokborok language.
• The day commemorates the first formal status of Kokborok as a language in 1979. The 44th Kokborok Day will be observed on January 19, 2022. 
• Tripura's official language, Kokborok, is also known as Tripuri or Tiprakok. 
• The state government of Tripura, India, declared Kokborok, along with Bengali and English, an official language in 1979.

Tripura

• Tripura is a state in India's northeastern region. It is the third-smallest state in the country, covering 10,491.69 km2 (4,050.86 sq mi) and is bounded to the north, south, and west by Bangladesh, and to the east by the Indian states of Assam and Mizoram. 
• In 2011, the state had 3,671,032 residents, accounting for 0.3 percent of the total population of the country.
• The Chief Of Tripura is Biplab Kumar Deb  and The governor of Tripura is Satyadev Narayan Arya.
• Tripura was a UT till 1 November 1956 and made into a state on 21 January 1971.