Ringui Ramhon

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Ringui Ramhon
Village
Nickname(s): Ringui
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Ringui Ramhon
Location in Manipur, India
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Ringui Ramhon
Ringui Ramhon (India)
Coordinates: 25°02′17″N94°14′40″E / 25.03806°N 94.24444°E / 25.03806; 94.24444 Coordinates: 25°02′17″N94°14′40″E / 25.03806°N 94.24444°E / 25.03806; 94.24444
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Manipur
District Ukhrul
Population
 • Total 750
Languages
 • Official Tangkhul (Ringui tui)
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 795142
Vehicle registration MN
Nearest city Ukhrul Imphal
Literacy 81.06%
Lok Sabha constituency Outer Manipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency Chingai

Ringui Ramhon is a small village located west of Ukhrul in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. The village is about 35 kilometers from Ukhrul partially connected by National Highway 150 that connects Imphal and Kohima via Ukhrul and Jessami. Ringui Ramhon is flanked by Ramva in the east, Tashar in the north, Sinakeithei in the west and Lungpha in the south. Locally, the inhabitants speak Ringui tui which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family.

Ukhrul Place in Manipur, India

Ukhrul/Hunphun is a town in Ukhrul district in the state of Manipur, India. Ukhrul district is the home of the Tangkhul Naga. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ukhrul district. There are also four sub-divisions in the district for administering the villages in and around it. The villages, however, are governed by the 'village heads'.

Manipur State in North-east India

Manipur is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south, and Assam to the west; Burma (Myanmar) lies to its east. The state covers an area of 22,327 square kilometres (8,621 sq mi) and has a population of almost 3 million, including the Meitei, who are the majority group in the state, Loi, Yaithibi, Kuki, and Naga peoples, who speak a variety of Sino-Tibetan languages. Manipur has been at the crossroads of Asian economic and cultural exchange for more than 2,500 years. It has long connected the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China, Siberia, Micronesia and Polynesia, enabling migration of people, cultures, and religions.

Jessami village in Manipur, India

Jessami is a town in Ukhrul district, Manipur, India. Jessami is a border town in the extreme north of Manipur State and borders with Meluri, a border town of Nagaland State. Being nearer to Nagaland, the town earlier used to get electricity from Nagaland. The government of Manipur installed a 33 KV Sub-Power station in 2011 to supply power from Manipur. The village was in the news recently because of a fatal accident that claimed 13 lives when the bus they were travelling met with an accident.

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Total population

According to 2011 census, [1] Ringui Ramhon has 64 households with the total of 530 people of which 280 are male and 250 are female. Of the total population, 65 were in the age group of 0–6 years. The average sex ratio of the village is 929 female to 1000 male which is lower than the state average of 985. The literacy rate of the village stands at 90.40% which is higher than the state average 76.94%. Male literacy rate stands at 93.35% while female literacy rate was 87.14%.

People and occupation

The village is home to people of Tangkhul Naga tribe. Majority of the inhabitants are Christians. Initially, the village was home to the Ngalung clan, but with the passage of time, the village now has other clans living along the original Ngalung clans. Agriculture is the primary occupation of the inhabitants. Ringui Ramhon is one of the 44 villages considered likely to be affected as a catchment area when the Mapithel multi purpose project is finally functional. [2] The village produced the first motion pictures in Tangkhul dialect. Dr. Yaronsho Ngalung, a well known social activist and politician [3] and also the incumbent Autonomous District Council Chairman hails from this village. [4]

Yaronsho Ngalung is a social activist, scholar and a politician from the Tangkhul Naga tribe in the state of Manipur, India. He hails from Ringui Ramhon village situated 30 kilometers south west of Ukhrul district headquarters. As of 2015 he was the sitting Chairman of the recently re-organised Autonomous District Council (ADC): elected from 15 DCC Ringui. Constituency.

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References

  1. ↑ "Ringui Ramhon population" (PDF). Census India. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  2. ↑ "Affected villages". E-Pao. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  3. ↑ "Article on Indo-Naga issue". E-pao. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Yaronsho Ngalung elected Chairman ADC Ukhrul". TSE. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
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