{"id":5136,"date":"2022-12-01T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:59:17","slug":"manipur-sangai-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/manipur-sangai-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur Sangai Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Manipur Sangai Festival:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Every year the State of Manipur celebrates the \u201cManipur Sangai Festival\u201d from 21st to 30th November.<\/li>\n<li>The objective is to showcase Manipur as a world class tourism destination.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018Festival\u2019 is named after the <strong>State animal, Sangai<\/strong>, the brow-antlered deer found only in Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It started in the year <strong>2010<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The theme of this year\u2019s Sangai festival is <strong>\u201cFestival of oneness\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Every edition of the festival showcases the tourism potential of the state in the field of Arts &amp; Culture, Handloom, Handicrafts, Indigenous Sports, Cuisine and Music of the state etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sangai Deer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: <\/strong>Rucervus eldii.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common Name: <\/strong>Sangai, Brow antlered deer, Dancing Deer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population:<\/strong> About 260 (acc. to a joint census conducted by the Forest Department in 2016).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat and Distribution:<\/strong> It is found only in <strong>Keibul Lamjao National Park<\/strong> \u2013 the largest single mass of phumdi is in the Loktak Lake \u2013 in Manipur\u2019s Bishnupur district.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Characteristics:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sangai is a medium-sized deer, with uniquely distinctive antlers, with extremely long brow tine, which form the main beam.<\/li>\n<li>The forward protruding beam appears to come out from the eyebrow, hence called the brow-antlered deer.<\/li>\n<li>It has a dark reddish-brown winter coat, which turns paler in summer.<\/li>\n<li>The deer walks on the hind surface of its pasterns with mincing hops over floating foliage, and is hence also called the<strong> Dancing Deer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Status:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>State animal of <strong>Manipur<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Schedule-1 of <strong>Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Endangered on IUCN Red List.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conservation Issues:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sangai faces threat from steadily degenerating habitat of phumdi as a result of continuous inundation and flooding caused due to artificial reservoir.<\/li>\n<li>There is also invasion of non-native plants like <strong>Paragrass.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also faces threats of diseases from the livestock, inbreeding depression and poaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the old name of Manipur?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Manipur was earliar known by different names such as Mitei-Leipak, Sanna-Leipak, Poirei-Lam, and Tilli-Koktong. Its capital Imphal was known by other different names such as Yumphal and Kangla.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1880022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manipur Sangai Festival is celebrated annually to showcase Manipur as a world class tourism destination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5136","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\/5136","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=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}