NuaKhai festival is being celebrated in Odisha.

NuaKhai festival is being celebrated in Odisha. Many dignitaries including the union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan greets people on the occasion.

This festival, celebrated particularly in western Odisha, the new rice of the season is offered to the deities even before the crop is harvested. People take the 'new rice' so offered to the goddess as 'Prasad', thereby symbolising their gratitude to the divine for blessing them with 'Anna' or food. In

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