‘Laotai-Baantaek Ngai’ was celebrated traditionally every year as winter sets in by the Rongmei Naga tribe about 30 years ago to encourage farmers for a good harvest.
Villagers have to carry heavy rice bags on their backs and walk home through the forest as the connecting road linking Kahulong and Bamgaijang in Tamenglong district of Manipur remains damaged and cut off for over five months.
The locals have spotted the arrival of a few since Saturday, while the radio tagged “Chiulon” Amur Falcon has reached near Xuzhou city and “Irang” near Linyi city of China as on October 7, according to the Wildlife Institute of India.