Guwahati, Sep 23: The ashes from the funeral pyre of Assam’s cultural icon Zubeen Garg will be made available to organisations and individuals through an online application procedure, the state’s senior minister Ranoj Pegu said on Tuesday.

Work on securing the area where the pyre was lit during the day at Kamarkuchi, on the outskirts of Guwahati, will commence on Tuesday night itself, while the demarcation and boundary wall for the premises of the memorial will also begin soon, he said.

The body of Garg (52), who had died while swimming in the sea in Singapore on September 19, was cremated at Kamarkuchi on Tuesday with full state honours as lakhs paid tributes to the singer-composer over the last couple of days.

Talking to reporters at the Kamarkuchi memorial spot, Pegu said, “The Assam

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