Lepa Rada district, with headquarters at Basar, is one of the 25

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

state in northeastern

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. Lepa Rada falls under 29-Basar Assembly Constituency and 1-West Parliamentary Constituency. The district is centrally located, hence the name Lepa Rada (Lepa means centre and Rada means bulls-eye like in Archery). Basar, Tirbin, Dari and Sago are 4 administrative circles of the district. It was created from the

West Siang district West Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. History In 1989, territory was given from West Siang to the East Siang district. Since 1999, this territory has been in the new ...

by bifurcating its southern areas along Assam border into a new district.

History

The district was created in 2018 by bifurcating the

Lower Siang district Lower Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is one of the 25 administrative districts in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The new district was carved out of West Siang and East Siang districts and declared operational on 22 September 2017 a ...

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 census, Lepa Rada district had a population of 14,490. Scheduled Tribes made up 11,235 (77.54%). At the time of the 2011 census, 71.81% of the population spoke

Galo Galo may refer to: People * Galo Blanco (born 1976), Spanish tennis player * Galo Chiriboga, Ecuadorian lawyer, politician and administrator * Galo Galecio (1906–1993), Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and printmaker * Galo Ocampo (19 ...

, 4.72% Nepali, 3.78%

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, 3.60%

Adi Adi or ADI may refer to: Names and titles * Adi (mythology), an Asura in Hindu faith who appears in the Matsya Purāṇa * Adi (name), a given name in Hebrew and a nickname in other languages * Adi (title), a Fijian title used by females of chie ...

, 3.27%

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

, 2.74%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, 2.67% Assamese and 1.08%

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as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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Culture

People Lepa Rada is inhabited by the

Galo tribe Galo may refer to: People * Galo Blanco (born 1976), Spanish tennis player * Galo Chiriboga, Ecuadorian lawyer, politician and administrator * Galo Galecio (1906–1993), Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and printmaker * Galo Ocampo (191 ...

Mopin The 'Mopin' or 'Moopin' Festival is an agricultural festival celebrated by the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India in particular of the Galo group of tribes which resides in East Siang and West Siang districts. It is a celebration of the h ...

being the main festival of harvest.

References

External links

Official website
Districts of Arunachal Pradesh * {{ArunachalPradesh-geo-stub

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Demographics

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