BASAR

About Basar

Basar is a census town in West Siang District in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Basar is popular, as it is the abode of Galo people. Name of current MLA (August-2016) of Basar constituency is Gojen GadiBasar is located at 2759N 9440E. It has an average elevation of 578 metres above mean sea level and has a pleasantly cold weather.[2]which is near to karlunga darraAccording to the 2001 India census, Basar has a population of 3834 Galo (Tribe) people. Males make up 56% of the population and females form 44%. Basar has a mean literacy rate of 72%, higher than the country wide mean of 59.5%. 61% of the males and 39% of the females are literate. 16% of the population is made up of children less than 6 years of age. It has a population density of 11 person per km2. The staple crop of the Galo people of Basar are rice, maize in slash-and-burn agricultural practice. The plains of the Basar valley is famous for its wet rice cultivation. Oranges and Pineapple are grown abundantly and nowadays kiwi and apple are tried in the higher ridges of the mountainous ranges. Basar is the original place of Riba, Basar, and Riram clans of Galo tribe and They live in over 65 hill villages, traditionally each keeping to itself under a selected chief styled Gaon Burra (British-era development) who moderates the village council, which acts even as traditional court. The olden day councils consists of all the village elder and decisions were taken in a dere.