Nuakhai Juhar    

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Context

• The Prime Minister has greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Nukhai.

About

• Nuakhai Juhar is harvesting festival of Odisha.
• Nuakhai is a combination of two words, 'nua' meaning new and 'khai' means eat, it thus signifies "eating of new rice".
• People worship food grain on this auspicious day.
• The farmers offer the first produce from their lands to Goddess Samaleswari, the famous mother goddess of Sambalpur district of the state.

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