DAPORIJO, 7 Nov: Si-Donyi, the major festival of the Tagin community, will be celebrated centrally here in Upper Subansiri district on 6 January, 2022, informed festival celebration committee chairman Dosh Dasi.
The festival committee, for the first time, has decided to involve the Arunachal Vikas Parishad (AVP) in the Si-Donyi celebration here. The decision was taken during a joint meeting of the Central Si-Donyi Festival Celebration Committee and the Upper Subansiri district unit of the AVP here on Sunday, under the initiative of the latter’s Upper Subansiri district unit in-charge Sopa Dugi.
The AVP has been given the responsibility of making bamboo dustbins and installing them at the festival
venue by 2 January next year.
This year, the festival was celebrated symbolically by the Tagin Cultural Society, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
District AVP president Gida Jeram assured to cooperate with the festival committee “by involving the members of the organizations for a grand celebration.”
Later, Jeram presented the AVP’s monthly newsletter, ‘Heritage Explore of My Village My Family’, and a book titled Arunachal Vikas Parishad, A Service Mission For Arunachal Pradesh to Dasi.