March 29, 2018: The First State Level Chapchar Kut Festival was held at Vanghmun Field, Jampui Hill, North Tripura on Wednesday last. People – young and old – were dressed in colorful traditional attire. Traditional Mizo dances, songs, folklores and foods etc. were also part of the Festival. In the Festival several competitions like Strongman Competition, Flowers Show, Dog Show, Fighter Cock Show, Drawing and Painting competition and various traditional games added colour.
Chapchar Kût is the Mizo Festival of joy celebrated every year after jungle clearing after jhum is over, usually in the month of March. This year the festival is celebrated in all the Mizo inhabited areas in Chin Hills of Myanmar and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and in all Mizo inhabited areas of Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Assam.
In Jampui Hill, Chapchar Kut is organized every year in all the Villages. This year the Tripura Group YMA and Jampui RD Block have decided to jointly celebrate the festival at a common venue with wide participation anticipated from all Zo-people of Tripura including Halam and Kuki.
It is worth mentioning that the Mizo people has proposed to the State Government during the Left Front Rule on several occasions to officially recognize the Chapchar Kut as one of the official festivals of Tripura but the proposals were turned down till date. One of the participants said, they are very optimistic about their demand for official recognition of the festival from the new Government. (As reported by Paritosh Paul from Dharmanagar)
