{"id":19121,"date":"2024-01-09T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19121"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T09:55:02","slug":"chandubi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chandubi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandubi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Chandubi Festival<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is organised every year for five days starting from the first day of the New Year along the\u00a0Chandubi lake, which is situated in the\u00a0state of Assam.<\/li>\n<li>The main attractions of the Chandubi festival are the local folk culture, ethnic cuisine, local handloom and dresses, boating, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The major aim of the Chandubi Festival is to\u00a0promote eco-tourism in this biodiversity hotspot of Assam.<\/li>\n<li>Preserving the waterbody, the water level of which has rapidly been lowering over the years, has been the motive for organising the festival every year.<\/li>\n<li>The festival has been providing an opportunity to generate livelihood to different tribes \u2013\u00a0Rabhas, Garos, Gorkhas and tea tribes \u2013 living in the area by selling different food items and homemade beverages, and traditionally woven attire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Chandubi lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was created during a massive earthquake in the year 1897.<\/li>\n<li>The name Chandubi is derived from two words where\u00a0Chand means five and\u00a0Dubi means sinking\u00a0in Khasi language.<\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0freshwater lake was turned to an economically viable water body that would sustain different communities living around the lake.<\/li>\n<li>It is a very prosperous wetland of the state that houses numerous species of aquatic flora and fauna.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is ecotourism?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to forms of tourism which have the following characteristics: All nature-based forms of tourism in which the main motivation of the tourists is the observation and appreciation of nature as well as the traditional cultures prevailing in natural areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/photos\/lifestyle\/all-you-need-to-know-about-assams-chandubi-festival-101704285156164-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>All you need to know about Assam&#8217;s Chandubi Festival<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandubi Festival is organised every year for five days starting from the first day of the New Year along the Chandubi lake, which is situated in the state of Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}