Nuakhai Juhar celebrated

Nuakhai Juhar celebrated

Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-I – Art & Culture

Key takeaways 

• Celebrated in: Western Odisha and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand.
• It is an agricultural festival. 
• It is observed to welcome the new rice of the season. 
• It is observed on the fifth day of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhaadra (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
• People offer the newly harvested crop called Nabanha to their respective presiding deities, as a part of the rituals