The Mising Autonomous Council (MAC), (sometimes Mishing), is an

autonomous district council The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India allows for the formation of autonomous administrative divisions which have been given autonomy within their respective states. Most of these autonomous district councils are located in North Ea ...

for the

Mising people The Mising, sometimes called Miri, are an indigenous community inhabiting parts of the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They were also known as ''Miris'' in the past and still recognized as Miris in the Constitution of India. Mis ...

Dhemaji District Dhemaji district (Pron:deɪˈmɑ:ʤi or di:ˈmɑ:ʤi) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters are located at Dhemaji and commercial headquarters being located Silapathar. The district occupies an a ...

in the state of

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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, with its headquarters at

Dhemaji Dhemaji (Pron: deɪˈmɑ:ʤi or di:ˈmɑ:ʤi) is a City in Assam and it is the headquarters of Dhemaji district, Assam, India. Etymology The district's name ''Dhemaji'' is derived from the Deori word ''Dema-ji'' which means ''great water'' indi ...

. Its chairman is Paramananda Chayengia, who was elected in 2013, as a member of the inaugural democratically elected executive council of the MAC.

Members

Executive Councillors

* Shri Sunil Kumar Pegu - Chairman * Shri Joygeswar Kutum - Deputy Chairman * Shri Paramananda Chayengia - Chief Executive Councilor * Shri Uma Pathori - Executive Councilor Fishery and Market & Fair * Smti Bhabani Duwarah - Executive Councilor for Social Welfare *

Raju Medok The Raju are a Telugu caste found mostly in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Varna Status The Raju caste, which A. Satyanarayana calls the "locally dominant landed gentry", claims Kshatriya status in the varna system despite there being ...

- Executive Councilor for Education, Library Service * Shri Johan Doley - Executive Councilor for P&RD, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary * Shri Purusuttam Doley - Executive Councilor for Health & Family Welfare, Land & Land Revenue * Shri Prabhat Basumatary - Executive Councilor for P&RD, Tribal Research, Museum * Roma Pait - Executive Councilor for Public Health Engineering * Prabhat Basumary - Executive Councilor for PHE, Sports and Youth Welfare * Shri Molendra Narzary - Executive Councilor for WPT & BC And Social Forestry * Shri Naresh Kumbang - Executive Councilor for Water Resource And Cottage Industry * Shri Biju Pegu - Executive Councilor for Minor Irrigation & Museum & Archaeology * Shri Debaranjan Morang - Executive Councilor for Agriculture and Transport * Shri Prasanta Kr. Bori - Executive Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Tourism * Smti Indira Kumbang - Executive Councilor for Handloom Textiles and Sericulture

References

Autonomous district councils of India Year of establishment missing Mising people Dhemaji district {{India-gov-stub

Members

Executive Councillors

See also

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