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Homeless for 70 years, the uncertainty of the ‘Mising community’

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    10Pointer
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    History & Culture
  • Published
    29th Jun, 2021

About 12,000 people of the Mising community are residing at Laika and Dadhia villages inside Dibru-Saikhowa National Park of Assam after they were rendered homeless some 70 years ago.The legislator demanded an immediate solution to the 70-year old problem with proper rehabilitation of people of the ethnic community.

Context

About 12,000 people of the Mising community are residing at Laika and Dadhia villages inside Dibru-Saikhowa National Park of Assam after they were rendered homeless some 70 years ago.The legislator demanded an immediate solution to the 70-year old problem with proper rehabilitation of people of the ethnic community.

About the Mising Community

  • The Mising people are the second-largest ethnic community of Assam.
  • They were an agrarian community dependent on farming and fishing. But now have turned into forest dwellers.
  • The Mising people are Mongoloid and belong to Tibeto – Burmese group.
  • Mising families are patriarchal.
  • The traditional chief festivals – Ali – Aye- Ligang and Porag are observed by the Mising.
    • These festivals are connected with agriculture (especially Rice).
  • Many centuries ago, they came down to Arunachal Pradesh from northwest China.
  • They settled in the hills lying north of the upper Brahmaputra Valley in the Siang and Lohit districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
  • In the early part of the 12th century, they migrated down to the plains of Assam in quest of a peaceful and conducive economic life.
  • Basically, the Mising tribe resides on the bank of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries.
  • The change in the course of the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries took place after the great earthquake in 1950 and 1957.
    • This made them, homeless.
    • They shifted in and around the forest region of Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Assam.
  • Their main problem began in 1999 when the forest was declared as Dibru-Saikhowa National Park making human habitation inside the protected area illegal.

Major problems faced by the community

  • Lack of basic day to day facilities such as drinking water, sanitation, electricity, roads, and basic house infrastructure
  • There is no provision of minimum healthcare or drinking water supply
  • Unreachable school premises
  • Excessive rainfall makes the situation worse during the Monsoon.

Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Assam

  • It is a National Park as well as a Biosphere Reserve having an area of 340 sq. km. in the Tinsukia district.
  • It went to a radical habitat transformation after the great earthquake of 1950.
  • The migratory birds are a major attraction.


  • Fauna:Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Jungle Cat, Bears, Small Indian Civet, Squirrels, Gangetic Dolphin, Slow Loris, Assamese Macaque, Rhesus Macaque, Capped Langur, Hoolock Gibbon, Wild Pigs, Sambar, Barking Deer, Water Buffalo, Feral Horses, etc.

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