{"id":4864,"date":"2023-01-09T06:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:23:57","slug":"parshuram-kund-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/parshuram-kund-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Parshuram Kund Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Parshuram Kund Festival<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Hindu pilgrimage site situated on the <strong>Brahmaputra plateau<\/strong> in the lower reaches of the Lohit River and 21 km north of Tezu in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Devotees and sadhus take a holy dip in its water each year on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, in January.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the Kumbh of the Northeast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religious significance:<\/strong> It is dedicated to a mythological figure <strong>sage Parshuram.<\/strong> This popular festival attracts pilgrims from Nepal, from across India, and from nearby states of Manipur and Assam.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The project \u201cDevelopment of Parasuram Kund is sanctioned under the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive\u2019 (PRASHAD) Scheme of the Ministry of Tourism.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is PRASHAD Scheme?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This scheme focuses on developing and identifying pilgrimage sites across India for enriching the religious tourism experience. It aims to integrate pilgrimage destinations in a prioritised, planned and sustainable manner to provide a complete religious tourism experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/parshuram-kund-festival-from-12-16-jan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Parshuram Kund Festival from 12-16 Jan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parshuram Kund is a Hindu pilgrimage site situated on the Brahmaputra plateau in lower reaches of Lohit River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4864","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\/4864","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=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}