Shirui Lily Festival 2025

On 20-24 May 2025, the Manipur government’s Department of Tourism organised the 5th State-level Shirui Lily Festival 2025 to promote both tourism and conservation.

  • The Shirui Lily Festival was held again after a two-year pause due to prolonged ethnic conflict in Manipur.

About the Festival

  • The festival was first held in 2017 as one of two major state-sponsored tourism festivals.
  • The other is the Sangai Festival, named after the Manipur brow-antlered deer (state animal).
  • The festival is named after the Shirui Lily (Lilium mackliniae), Manipur’s state flower.
  • The Shirui Lily Festival honours the delicate and endangered Lilium Mackliniae, which blooms only in the Shirui ....
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