Pakke-Kessang district

Pakke-Kessang district is one of the districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeast India.[1][2] District was carved out of East Kameng district in 2018 by creating a new district from five southernmost administrative units of East Kameng district, namely: Piziriang, Passa Valley (Lumdung and Rilloh villages), Pakke-Kessang in Pakke Valley, Dissing Passo and Seijosa (Pakke Tiger Reserve lies inside it), with district headquarters at Lemmi (near Seppa).[3] It shares district borders with West Kameng district to west, East Kameng district to north, Pakke-Kessang district to the south, Papum Pare district to southeast and Kra Daadi district to the east, which was bifurcated from East Kameng district on 1 December 2018.

Pakke-Kessang district
District of Arunachal Pradesh
Location of Pakke-Kessang district in Arunachal Pradesh
Country India
StateArunachal Pradesh
Established2018
HeadquartersLemmi
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Websiteofficial website

Most of the district, which lies south of NH 13 (which itself is the trunk route of Trans-Arunachal Highway) along the border of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, is covered by Nameri National Park.

Administrative and political divisions

Pakke-Kasang is a constituency of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, which is part of Arunachal West Lok Sabha constituency.[4]

Tourist attractions

The whole district is in the picturesque foothills covered with greenry. Tourist attractions in the district are in Passa valley and Pakke valley. Passa valley and surrounding ranges cover the northern part of district from Piziriang to Lumdung and Rilloh area. Pakke valley and surrounding ranges cover the central and southern part of the district. Few notable attractions are as follows:[5]

  • Lemmi (Seppo), the capital, hosts tribal dance festivals
  • Lumdung, 21 km south of from Seppa, is popular for migratory bird in winter,
  • Rilloh, 78 km south of Seppa is popular tourist place
  • Pakke-Kessang hill station is 144 km southeast of Seppa which gets much colder in winter, Himalayas can be viewed from the hill stations of Pakke-Kessang
  • Pakke Valley, 144 km southwest of Seppo
    • Pakke Tiger Reserve in Seijosa block is 64 km north of Tezpur and 225 km southwest of Seppa
    • Kameng River is well known for fishing which requires fishing permit from the district headquarter, flowing through Seppo it enters the district in the central north, then flows to the west, and finally passing through Pakke Tiger Reserve it exits from the south of district.

Flora and fauna
A view of the Pakke Tiger Reserve

In 1977 Pakke Kessang district became home to the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, which has an area of 862 km2 (332.8 sq mi).[6]

Seijosa
Seijosa Scenery

Seijosa is a circle in Pakke Kessang district. It has now an Additional Deputy Commissioner office. Mainly Nyishi people inhibit here. The Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary is located here. The Seijosa town is situated along the river Pakke. Every Thursday people from Assam mainly from places like Itakhola come to sell vegetables, clothes, etc. The people from Assam and Seijosa share a cordial relationship. Due to lack of proper road communication and direct link road to Itanagar, often people have to suffer a lot due to frequent Assam Bandh calls and poor communication and network facilities. The way to Seijosa via road is very painful and troublesome due to non-maintenance of roads. Large numbers of potholes on the road often big as a pond often get filled with Rain Water during Summer and create huge difficulty for its people. Goloso, Bali-Basti, A/2, etc. are some of the villages. It is a great place for a picnic, every year a lot of tourists come to Seijosa to picnic. Seijosa was heavily flooded in 2004 destroying her beauty but is developing well now. The Assam Government has built an irrigation dam locally known as ND Dam on the inner line check gate of Seijosa. Around the foothills of Seijosa, there are frequent sights of wild elephants and other wild animals from Pakke Tiger Reserve. Seijosa has a State Bank of India Branch established in 1986 which is serving to around 7000 population of Pakke Kessang Constitutancy and also peoples from surrounding villages of Assam from Itakhola to Seijosa.

Population
Nyishi People

District is inhabited by various tribes of similar origin but with distinct cultures and beliefs, practicing the Donyi-Polo religion. The most populous of these, the Nishi, are scattered throughout the entire district. Other tribes, especially the Miji, Puroik and the Aka, are found in regions near the Kameng river.

Since independence, much of the population has relocated to the district capital, Seppa. With the coming of modernism, festivals such as the Sarok of the Aka, Nyokum of the Nishi, Jonglam-Ponklam and Chindang of the Miji and the Gumkum-Gumpa are celebrated in full flair in Seppa.

Koro
Main article: Koro language (India)

The Koro is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 800–1200 people in the East Kameng district who live among the Aka (Hruso), but their language is distantly related, with distinct words for basic vocabulary.[7][8] Although it has resemblances to Tani further to the east, it appears to be a separate branch of Tibeto-Burman.[9] Koro is unlike any language in the various branches of the Tibeto-Burman family.[10] Researchers hypothesize it may have originated from a group of people enslaved and brought to the area.[11]

Koro was recognized as a separate language in 2010 by a linguistic team of David Harrison, Gregory Anderson, and Ganesh Murmu while documenting two Hruso languages (Aka and Miji) as part of National Geographic's "Enduring Voices" project.[7] It was apparently noticed by earlier researchers.[12]

See also

References
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  2. "Arunachal Pradesh gets 25th district called Shi Yomi". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. Arunachal Assembly passes bill for creation of 3 new districts: List of Indian states that took birth post-independence, India Today, 30 Aug 2018.
  4. "Assembly Constituencies allocation w.r.t District and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Arunachal Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  5. Tourist places.
  6. Indian Ministry of Forests and Environment. "Protected areas: Arunachal Pradesh". Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  7. Morrison, Dan "'Hidden' Language Found in Remote Indian Tribe". National Geographic Daily News, 5 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010
  8. Schmid, Randolph E. "Researchers find previously undocumented language hidden in small villages in India" Archived 7 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Sync Retrieved on 5 October 2010
  9. "In Search for 'Last Speakers', a Great Discovery". National Public Radio. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  10. Khan, Amina (6 October 2010). "Linguists uncover 'hidden' language in north India". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  11. Weise, Elizabeth (6 October 2010). "Linguists discover new language in India". USA Today. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  12. Ethnologue, "Hruso". (Some sound files)

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