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Powers duties of the Board.- - 4 - Ex-185/2022 e) to hold festival of letters and music, to sponsor and organize seminars, symposium, debate, translation works on its own or through an agency or on joint basis at the headquarters or at other places where the Board deems it suitable and beneficial; (f) to appoint and depute man of letters, prospective writers or a study team in and outside the country for a specific (or definite) purpose and time which the Board may deem fit; (g) to sponsor project works like standardizing the sound system of the Mizo language by assigning alphabet to a particular sound or modifying the orthographic system aided by tonal marks, to modify and reform mode of writing and punctuation; (h) to undertake research works helpful for the growth and development of Mizo language, literature and culture by producing Mizo encyclopedia, standard dictionary, descriptive grammar of Mizo tongue with scientific description of the language and such other related works; (i) to establish a specialized library of language and literature equipped with modern technique of audio and visual media for recording sound system and the movement of lips and tongue and such other necessary works; (j) to assist needy writers on its own or through an appropriate agency in fulfillment of the objectives of the Board; (k) to set up different committees or sub-committees and cells for publication, research and documentation, grammar and codifying, copyright and censorship, translation etc. CHAPTER IV Controlling Authority (1) The Controlling Authority shall have the right to address the Board with reference to any of the works done by the Board and to commu nicate his views on any matter with which the Board is concerned. (2) The Board shall report to the Controlling Authority such action, if any, as it proposes to take or has taken upon its communications when the Controlling Authority requires the Board to do any particular work done by it. (3) The Controlling Authority shall have the right to direct the Board on certain issues, if in the opinion of the Controlling Authority such direction is required and the Board shall have to comply with such direction. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act, the Government shall have the power to dissolve the Board, if in its opinion the Board has persistently made defaults in the performance assigned to it by or under this Act. (2) In the event of dissolution of the Board, all the members of the Board, and its committees and sub-committees including the Chairman