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'''Daribokgre''' is a village in the [[East Garo Hills district]], [[Meghalaya]], [[India]]. Daribokgre is located in the Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, close to the [[Nokrek National Park]]. The economy is largely agrarian, following the traditional ''jhum'' system of rotational [[slash-and-burn]] cropping to a limited extent. Most of the houses are traditional bamboo buildings. The traditional ''Nok-Achik'' residential building at the entrance to Nokrek offers tourists a glimpse of the traditional Garo way of life.

==Description==
[[File:Daribokgre Nokrek Entrance East Garo Oct24 A7CR 03649.jpg|thumb|Daribokgre from the north, Nokrek ridge in the distance]]
Daribokgre village is located in the Samanda [[Community development block|Community & Rural Development (C&RD) block]] in the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.<ref name="CensusEastGaroA">{{Cite book|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/860/download/36308/DH_2011_1702_PART_A_DCHB_EAST_GARO_HILLS.pdf|title=Meghalaya: District Census Handbook: East Garo Hills -- Village and Town Directory|publisher=Directorate of Census Operations, Meghalaya, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India|year=2011|series=2 Part XII A}}</ref>{{rp|page=331}} It falls under the [[Williamnagar Assembly constituency]] and the [[Tura Lok Sabha constituency]]. The traditional houses are large bamboo structures called ''Nokmong''. Each accommodates one family. Alongside are granaries (''Jam nok''), woodsheds and pig sties.<ref name="Burling"/>{{rp|pages=21}}<ref name="GaroArch">{{Cite web |date=24 October 2024 |title= Culture & Heritage: Garo Architecture |url=https://westgarohills.gov.in/culture-heritage/ |access-date=3 November 2024 |website=[[East Garo Hills district]], [[Government of Meghalaya]]}}</ref>

== Geography ==
Daribokgre is situated in the East Garo Hills at an elevation of {{Convert|1,140|m|ft|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Way: Daribokgre |url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1326216261 |access-date=26 May 2025 |website=[[OpenStreetmap]]}}</ref> The East Garo Hills run from east to west in the western part of Meghalaya, in the bend of the [[Brahmaputra River|Brahmaputra river]] as it turns from west to south. The distance from Daribokgre to Williamnagar, district headquarters, is {{Convert|51.5|km|mi|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Williamnagar - Daribokgre, Meghalaya |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Williamnagar,+Meghalaya/Daribokgre,+Meghalaya+794001/@25.5765327,90.2704707,51928m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3757787b2175160f:0x9ce9d0f5ce77dd98!2m2!1d90.5920027!2d25.5313902!1m5!1m1!1s0x37578e1352f89edb:0x7e6ab7ee9e0ff9ae!2m2!1d90.3238665!2d25.4921287!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyMS4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref> [[Shillong]], the capital of Meghalaya, is {{Convert|285|km|mi|abbr=on}} distant.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Shillong - Daribokgre, Meghalaya |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Shillong,+Meghalaya/Daribokgre,+Meghalaya+794001/@25.8198207,90.4319541,207288m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x37507e8f34bd207f:0x62482df7108f882b!2m2!1d91.8932535!2d25.5787726!1m5!1m1!1s0x37578e1352f89edb:0x7e6ab7ee9e0ff9ae!2m2!1d90.3238665!2d25.4921287!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyMS4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=24 May 2025 |website=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref>

=== Climate ===
Daribokgre has a tropical climate, hot and humid during the summer and rainy season (March–October) and pleasantly cool during the short winter (December–February). June–August is the period of heavy rain.<ref name="CensusEastGaroA"/>{{rp|page=5}}

== Demographics ==
In 2011, the total population was 125 in 19 households. Among these 48% were female. All 125 people belonged to [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled tribes]]; there were no members of [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled castes]]. The [[Literacy|literacy rate]] was 64%.<ref name="CensusEastGaroB">{{Cite book|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/871/download/36348/DH_2011_1701_PART_B_DCHB_WEST_GARO_HILLS.pdf |title=Meghalaya: District Census Handbook: East Garo Hills -- Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract (PCA)|publisher=Directorate of Census Operations, Meghalaya, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India|year=2011|series=2 Part XII B}}</ref>{{rp|page=170–1}} In the rural areas of the Samanda sub-district as a whole, Christians were 97.6%, Hindus were 0.01%, and Muslims and Buddhists comprised 0.005% each.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |date=21 January 2021 |title=C-01: Population by religious community, Meghalaya - 2011 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/11384/download/14497/DDW17C-01%20MDDS.XLS |access-date=31 October 2024 |website=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India]]}}</ref>

== Governance ==
[[File:Sign Daribokgre Community Reserve West Garo Oct24 A7CR 03612.jpg|thumb|Information, Daribokgre Community Reserve]]
Traditionally, the village was governed by one or more male ''nokmas'' (headmen). These are selected from the leading households of the village based on lineage. The ''nokma'' in consultation with the households allots the plots for ''jhumming'' every year. He also is responsible for settling disputes. As the Garo society is matrilinal, the ''nokma'' typically looks for a young man from his own lineage to marry his daughter. The son-in-law then inherits the household and becomes ''nokma'' when the father-in-law dies.<ref name="Burling"/>{{rp|pages=223–35}}<ref name="Dialogue2005">{{Cite journal |last=Chaudhury |first=D.R. |date=July–September 2005 |title=Autonomous District Councils and Panchayati Raj Institutions in North-East India |url=http://asthabharati.org/Dia_Jul%2005/dip.htm |journal=Dialogue |publisher=Astha Bharati |publication-place=Delhi |volume=7 |issue=1}}</ref>

The system has evolved after Indian Independence. The [[Garo Hills Autonomous District Council]] passed the Garo Hills District (Jhum) Regulation Act, 1954 that confers on the ''nokma'' the right to allot ''jhum'' land. However, disputes related to allotment are now referred to the Village Council instead of being resolved by the ''nokma''. Village Councils were created based on the Constitution of Village Council Act in 1958. The Village Council is intended to make each village a self-sufficient, efficiently administered unit. It is responsible for maintenance of public paths, roads, wells, tanks, etc., for registration of births and deaths and other record keeping, etc.<ref name="Dialogue2005"/>

=== Daribokgre Community Reserve ===
Since 2013, the Forest Department, Government of Meghalaya has declared 64 Community Reserves under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. The Daribokgre Community Reserve with an area of {{cvt|173|ha|acre|abbr=on}} was notified on 10 July 2013. The notification gives complete control of the Community Reserve to the community to protect the flora and fauna, and the traditional conservation values and practices. All traditional rites and rituals are permitted, though hunting is not allowed. The Reserve is managed by the Daribokgre Community Reserve Management Committee.<ref name="CRNotify">{{Cite web |date=24 February 2021 |title=Community Reserves |url=https://www.megforest.gov.in/wildlife_community.html |access-date=4 November 2024 |website=[[Government of Meghalaya|Meghalaya Forests and Environment Department]]}}</ref>

==Amenities==
As of 2011, pre-primary and primary schooling were available in the village. For higher classes, children had to commute over {{Convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Daribokgre. The village has piped water supply. The village [[Postal Index Number|pincode]] is 794111 though there is no post office.<ref name=IndiaPostPIN>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Find Pin Code: State - Megalaya, District - East Garo Hills |url=https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/pages/findpincode.aspx |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=[[India Post]]}}</ref><ref name="CensusEastGaroA"/>{{rp|page=446–9}}

==Economy==
The economy is largely agrarian. In 2011, people cultivating their own or leased land comprised 50.8% of the main workers (those employed for >6 months in a year).<ref name="CensusEastGaroB"/>{{rp|page=172–3}}

=== Agriculture ===
[[File:Orange Orchard Daribokgre East Garo Oct24 A7CR 03656.jpg|thumb|Orange orchard in Daribokgre]]
The traditional ''jhum'' system of rotational cropping is followed to a limited extent. In the ''jhum'' system, ''A'king'' land is owned by the community. Each year, the ''Nokma'' allots plots of ''A'king'' land to each household for pre-determined crops. After 2 years of use, a plot is left fallow for 6–8 years during which scrub forest grows. When the plot is again allotted for cropping, the scrub forest is cleared and burnt in a planned operation.<ref name="Burling">{{Cite book |last=Burling |first=R. |title=Rengsanggri |publisher=Tura Book Room, Garo Baptist Convention |year=1997 |edition=2nd |location=Tura}}</ref>{{rp|pages=27–42}}K/ref><ref name="CensusEastGaroA"/>{{rp|page=8}} This traditional cycle of 'slash-and-burn' rotational cultivation is believed to be sustainable ecologically and culturally.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Current Science Reports |date=25 February 2022 |title=Jhum for Sustainability: Agrobiodiversity in Garo Hills |journal=[[Current Science]] |volume=122 |issue=4 |pages=376}}</ref>

In the first year, the plot is used for vegetables such as sweet potato, ginger, varieties of beans, sugarcane, onions, etc. In the second year, grains such as rice, maize or millet are grown on the plot. Bananas, oranges and pineapples are also grown. Gourds and squashes are grown on frames or on the walls of houses. In some plots, cash crops such as areca, cotton and chilli peppers are planted. The planting of vegetables is somewhat random, adding variety to the diet and improving the soil health. In a few low lying plots, rice is cultivated continuously.<ref name="Burling"/>{{rp|pages=27–42}}

In recent times, some families took advantage of a custom that permitted planting of crops on any land not already covered by the ''jhum'' system. They constructed permanent fields in low-lying areas to grow wet rice. Some also planted pineapples, tea, coffee, oranges and areca palms. These families moved their houses away from the central village to the location of their permanent fields. Such permanent fields can be surveyed by the district administration and title (''patta'') granted to the cultivators. With the title comes the obligation to pay taxes, which is not the case with ''jhum'' land. These developments have created greater inequality in the village.<ref name="Burling"/>{{rp|pages=323–32}}

=== Animal husbandry ===
Raising of livestock is common though secondary to agriculture. The main animals in the district are cattle, pigs, goats, and fowl.<ref name="CensusEastGaroA"/>{{rp|pages=9–10}}<ref name="SHB2023">{{Cite book |url=https://des.megplanning.gov.in/pub_ref.htm |title=Statistical Handbook of Meghalaya 2023 |publisher=[[Government of Meghalaya|Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Meghalaya]] |date=November 2023 |location=Shillong |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref>{{rp|page=71}}

==Transport==
[[File:Road Daribokgre East Garo Oct24 A7CR 03638.jpg|thumb|Road from Sasatgre in Daribokgre]]
Daribokgre is connected to important places in the district by black-topped roads. The Meghalaya Transport Corporation buses run at infrequent intervals.<ref name="CensusEastGaroA"/>{{rp|page=46}} The nearest railway station and airport are in [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]], at distances of {{Convert|201|km|mi|abbr=on}} and {{Convert|217|km|mi|abbr=on}} respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Guwahati Airport - Daribokgre, Meghalaya |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Guwahati+Airport+(GAU),+Borjhar,+Guwahati,+Assam/Daribokgre,+Meghalaya+794001/@25.9127731,90.3149482,207125m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x375a4142182c00c1:0x69ba1fb4e82844d8!2m2!1d91.5860468!2d26.1064727!1m5!1m1!1s0x37578e1352f89edb:0x7e6ab7ee9e0ff9ae!2m2!1d90.3238665!2d25.4921287!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyMS4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Guwahati Railway Station - Daribokgre, Meghalaya |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Guwahati+Railway+Station,+Mawhati,+Paltan+Bazaar,+Guwahati,+Assam+781001/Daribokgre,+Meghalaya+794001/@26.0069905,90.3544209,206959m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x375a5a28d03da289:0x301f3285c2271b5f!2m2!1d91.7512413!2d26.1822633!1m5!1m1!1s0x37578e1352f89edb:0x7e6ab7ee9e0ff9ae!2m2!1d90.3238665!2d25.4921287!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyMS4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref>

== Tourism ==
[[File:Nokpante Close Viewing Deck Daribokgre East Garo Oct24 A7CR 03645.jpg|thumb|Nokpante bachelors' house, Nok-Achik]]
Daribokgre is in the Nokrek Biosphere Reserve and is a convenient base for trekking in the [[Nokrek National Park]] and Nokrek Peak. Near the entrance to the National Park, visitors can get a glimpse of the traditional Garo lifestyle in the bamboo ''Nokpante'' bachelors' house. Several other tourist attractions located nearby include Rongbang Falls, Songkal Wari Open River Fish Sanctuary, the Hoolock Gibbon rescue centre at Chinabat.<ref>{{Cite web |last=OT Staff |date=17 February 2024 |title=Did You Know About Meghalaya's Nokrek Biosphere Reserve? |url=https://www.outlooktraveller.com/experiences/nature/did-you-know-about-meghalayas-nokrek-biosphere-reserve |access-date=8 November 2024 |website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook Traveller]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=16 January 2023 |title=Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma inaugurates Viewing Deck, Nok•Achik |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/meghalaya/meghalaya-cm-conrad-sangma-inaugurates-viewing-deck-nokachik |access-date=2 November 2024 |work=[[Imphal Free Press]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{Commons category|Daribokgre}}
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[[Category:Villages in East Garo Hills district]]
[[Category:Tourism in Meghalaya]]
[[Category:Garo Hills]]
[[Category:Biosphere reserves of India]]

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