(THE GIST OF PIB) Nuakhai Juhar

(September-2023)

Nuakhai Juhar

• Recently, the Prime Minister of India greeted the people on the auspicious occasion of Nuakhai Juhar.

About Nuakhai Juhar:

• It is an important social festival of Western Odisha and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand.
• The word nua means new, and khai means food.
• Objective:It is an agricultural festival which is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.
• It is observed on the fifth day of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhadra (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.

What are the rituals?

• Nuakhai is understood to have nine colours, and as a consequence, nine sets of rituals are followed as a prelude to the actual day of celebration.
• People offer the newly harvested crop called Nabanha to their respective presiding deities.
• After offering the Nabanha, people relish different types of delicacies prepared from the newly harvested crop.
• The Nuakhai Juhar is a major ritual of the festival.

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