PM Narendra Modi wishes people on the occasion of Nuakhai

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today greeted people on the occasion of Nuakhai, a harvest festival celebrated in parts of the country, especially Odisha.

He took to twitter and wrote: “This is an occasion to express gratitude to our hardworking farmers for their exemplary work in feeding our nation. May our society scale new heights of progress and may everyone be happy.”

Nuakhai is an annual harvest festival in Odisha, celebrated to welcome the season’s new rice. Celebrated a day after Ganesh Chaturthi, Nuakhai is the most auspicious and important social festival in Western Odisha and the neighbouring areas of Simdega in Jharkhand. The word ‘nua’ translates to new and ‘khai’ means food – the name of the festival signifies the possession of new rice in granaries, an event that calls for revelry.

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