{"id":23020,"date":"2024-05-03T02:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23020"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:14:24","slug":"garo-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/garo-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Garo Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Garo Hills<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Garo Hills form the <strong>western part ofMeghalaya<\/strong> State and covers an area of approximately 8,000 sq km.<\/li>\n<li>The range is part of the <strong>Meghalaya subtropical forests eco-region<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Situated <strong>close to the Indo-Bangladesh border<\/strong>, the Garo hills are <strong>part of the Patkai hill range<\/strong>, <strong>whichextendsacross<\/strong> the <strong>Indo-Myanmar border.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the wettest places<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The region is <strong>drained by<\/strong> various <strong>tributaries of<\/strong> the <strong>Brahmaputra River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Garo Hills comprises 5 districts; North Garo Hills, East Garo Hills, West Garo Hills, South Garo Hills, and South-West Garo Hills.<\/li>\n<li>The Garo Hills are mostly <strong>dominated by<\/strong> the tribes known as <strong>Garos<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Garos call themselves <strong>Achik-mande.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Garos form the <strong>second largest tribein<\/strong> the state of <strong>Meghalaya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>one of the last<\/strong> remaining <strong>matrilineal tribes in the world<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>main festival is the Wangala festival<\/strong>, a harvest festival, which is predominantly celebrated by the Songsareks (those following the traditional religion of animism).<\/li>\n<li>Two mountain ranges, the <strong>Arabella range and the Tura rang<\/strong>e, <strong>passthrough the Garo Hills, forming<\/strong> the great <strong>Balpakram valley<\/strong> in between.<\/li>\n<li>Balpakram area is considered <strong>sacred for the Garo<\/strong> community due to their <strong>belief that the spirits of the dead sojourn here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest point<\/strong> in the Garo Hills is <strong>Nokrek Peak,<\/strong> with an elevation of 1412 m, which is covered by a thick film of lush forest.<\/li>\n<li>The region is home to the esteemed <strong>Nokrek National Park<\/strong>, protects a highly diverse plant and animal diversity. In 2009, the park was <strong>designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q<\/strong>: What is the Geological Survey of India (GSI)?<\/h3>\n<p>GSI was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways. It is the second oldest survey in India after Survey of India (founded in 1767).<\/p>\n<p>Objective: Providing objective, impartial and up-to-date geological expertise and geoscientific information of all kinds, with a focus on policy-making decisions and commercial and socio-economic needs.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatodayne.in\/meghalaya\/story\/meghalaya-gsi-unearths-40-million-year-old-fossils-in-south-garo-hills-996981-2024-05-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Meghalaya: GSI unearths 40-million-year-old fossils in South Garo Hills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garo Hills form the western part of Meghalaya State and covers an area of approximately 8,000 sq km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23020","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\/23020","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=23020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}