Karbi New Year Celebrated with Pomp and Gaiety across Assam

Diphu, February 2, 2020:

The Karbi community of Assam celebrated its new year (better known as Karbi Ningkan Kimi) with pomp and gaiety on Saturday in the Karbi-inhabited areas, primarily in the twin districts of Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong.

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The Karbis ushered in their new year by performing Rongker- a ceremony of sacrifice for seeking blessings for the villages across Karbi Anglong.

Based on the agricultural life of the Karbis, who start looking for a patch of hill to cultivate jhum in the month of February is taken as the beginning of the year.

The Karbi community, on the occasion of its New Year, conducts various games and other traditional indigenous tribal rituals to mark its New Year. They also offer prayers to their God, Hemphu.

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Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) CEM this year undertook a unique initiative to mark the New Year celebrations, taking high mast lighting to a remote village, Dongkamukam. "As a New Year gift to the people under Dongkamukam Town, I'm happy to inaugurate 6 High Mast Lighting in the presence of Telishram Ronghang, Chairman of Dongkamukam Municipal Board, Vice Chairman Rensing Timung, Ward Commissioners Serlongki Bey, Jeetu Terang, Nominated MAC Chandra Chetry, Board Chairmen Dityalal Hasnu, Pronob Rongphar & and other dignitaries", Ronghang later posted on Facebook.

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