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People from the Chepang Community are celebrating the Chonam (Nwagi) festival today. Chhonam is one of the biggest religious festivals in the community, and it is celebrated on Bhadra 22 every year. A recently held cabinet meeting of the Bagmati Province government decided to give a public holiday in three districts of Bagmati Province today on the occasion of the Chonam festival. A public holiday has been given in Chitwan, Makawanpur, and Dhading districts today.
The festival is going to be celebrated collectively, said Bagmati Province Secretary of Nepal Chepang Association and ward chairperson of Ichchhakamana rural municipality-6, Laxman Chepang. The people from the Chepang community of Chitwan, Dhading, Makawanpur, and Gorkha districts are celebrating the Nwagi festival gathering at Chyangli in Dhading district. They have been observing this festival collectively at the initiative of the Chepang Association for eight years. "Those who cannot participate in this celebration organized collectively will celebrate at their homes and communities", he mentioned.
There is a religious belief in the Chepang community that new harvest food grains and fruits should not be eaten without offering them to the departed souls. This festival is also a day for Chepang people to eat new harvest food grains, and they celebrate the festival by eating delicious foods, said Laxam Chepang. There are 84,364 people in Chepang. The highest population, around 35,000, lives in Chitwan district._Rss
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