Pakke-Kessang district


Pakke-Kessang district is one of the districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeast India. District was carved out of East Kameng district in 2018 by creating a new district from five southern-most administrative units of East Kameng district, namely: Piziriang, Passa Valley, Pakke-Kessang in Pakke Valley, Dissing Passo and Seijosa, with district headquarters at Lemmi. 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.
Most of the district, which lies south of NH 13 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.

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:
In 1977 Pakke Kessang district became home to the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, which has an area of.

Seijosa

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 Itakola 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

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.

Language

Koro

The Koro is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 800–1200 people in the East Kameng district who live among the Aka, but their language is distantly related, with distinct words for basic vocabulary. Although it has resemblances to Tani further to the east, it appears to be a separate branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koro is unlike any language in the various branches of the Tibeto-Burman family. Researchers hypothesize it may have originated from a group of people enslaved and brought to the area.
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 as part of National Geographic's "Enduring Voices" project. It was apparently noticed by earlier researchers.