Siang District is the 21st district of

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,

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. This district was created in 2015 by carving it out of the

West Siang 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 ...

and East Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The regions included in the district were the legislative assembly constituencies, 32-Rumgong and 35-Pangin. The district is predominantly inhabited by the

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of Arunachal Pradesh.

Name

The Siang district is named after the River Siang (Yarlung Tsangpo, often identified with

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) which flows through this district. Four other districts in Arunachal Pradesh are also named after the river:

, East Siang,

Upper Siang Upper Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is the fourth least populous district in the country (out of 640). History The majority of the people are of the Adi trib ...

and

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. The word siang is surmised to have originated from the Angsi glacier on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet, where the Yarlung Tsangpo originates.

Location

Geographically, Siang District is located almost in the centre of the Siang belt of Arunachal Pradesh. Boleng is about 100 km from

Pasighat Pasighat is the headquarters of East Siang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Situated at the eastern foothills of the Himalayas at above mean sea level, Pasighat is Arunachal's oldest town. The Government of India included Pa ...

, 45 km from Along and 22 km from Pangin.

History

The creation of Siang district was approved by the Arunachal Pradesh government of Nabam Tuki on 21 March 2013. Eighteen months later the Pangin town was announced as the temporary headquarters of the district, amid claims that Boleng town had been promised the role. Siang district was declared to be the 21st district of Arunachal Pradesh by Nabam Tuki on 27 November 2015. The new district was said to have been created to make the administration closer to the public. Funding was promised at that time for the construction of a district secretariat at Peram in Pangin, other offices in Pangin, also a small stadium, for school, hospital, housing, bridge, and road construction and other developments.

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 census, the population was 31,920. Scheduled Tribes make up 28,922 (90.61%) of the population. At the time of the 2011 census, 90.65% of the population spoke

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, 2.69% Nepali and 2.05%

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Administration

The main administrative centres which falls under the district are Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADCs) Rumgong, Kaying. Presently, it has 9 Zilla Parishad members i.e.: Jomlo Mobuk,

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, Payum, Boleng,

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, Rebo-Perging, Pangin, and Kebang.

Divisions

The district has 4 Sub-Divisions: * Boleng Division: Circles of Boleng,

, Rebo-Perging * Pangin Sub-Division: Circles of Pangin, Kebang * Rumgong Sub-Division: Circles of Jomlo Mobuk,

* Kaying Sub-Division: Circles of

, Payum

Assembly constituencies

There are 2 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly constituencies located in this district: *

(32) - Arunachal West Lok Sabha Constituency * Pangin (35) - Arunachal East Lok Sabha Constituency

References

External links

Official website

.Boleng HQ of Siang District
Districts of Arunachal Pradesh 2014 establishments in Arunachal Pradesh {{ArunachalPradesh-geo-stub