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bhaskar pegu
In a sudden eviction drive carried out by the forest department of Assam yesterday,an indigenous Mising people's village houses were destroyed by forest personnel of Assam.It needs to mentioned here that the new village was founded few years ago in forest area of the city's hilly terrain by people mostly hailing from flood hit Lakhimpur,Dhemaji,and Majuli of upper Assam.Most of the victims belongs...
bhaskar pegu
To set forth the rich culture of the Mising people to the world stage ,the chief festival of the tribe Ali-A:yé Lígang has been planned to celebrate with two-day long programmes in the city of Guwahati,the gateway of northeastern region of India.The Ali-A:yé Lígang is basically an agriculture based festival of the Mising Tani tribe of the region. The All Guwahati Mising Kébang(AGMK) ,the organizat...
Bhaskar Gupid
The State Government had a discussion with the Guwahati Mati Pattakaran Sangram Samiti yesterday over the vexed issue of granting land settlement rights (patta) to the landless people residing on the city hills.

Briefing the media on the discussion, samiti president Pranab Goswami and secretary Prabin Jyoti Kalita today said that the government side, represented by Revenue Minister Prithivi Majhi...
Bhaskar Gupid
The Mising people living in Ruwad,Donyi-Polo and Devanagar villages celebrated Ligang festival with day long programmes and cultural evening under the aegis of Greater Panjabari-Khanapara Ali-Aye-Ligang celebration commmittee the previous day.The annual seed sowing festival of the Mising community was throng with hundreds of revellers from various parts of Guwahati.The programme was held in Abotan...
Pranab Doley
Ali-A:YE-Lígang Invitation
Posted February 13, 2009 by Pranab Doley