Introduction

Tuting Tibetan Settlement is one of four Tibetan Settlements in Arunachal Pradesh. It is situated near Mac Mohan Line of Indo-Tibetan Border. It is on the altitude of 4000 feet above the sea level. Earlier Tuting was under the jurisdiction of Tezu Dhargyeling Tibetan Settlement Office. However, the Tuting Tibetan Settlement Office was established on the date of 15th April, 2023. Since then it has a settlement officer and an accountant cum secretary. Initially there were 943 residents living in 87 households. There are 1088 residents at present. Back in the past Tuting was considered a backward place. Anyhow under the guidance and financial assistance from Central Tibetan Administration and different Agencies education and infrastructure have seen a great improvement since then.

 

Settlement Location

Tuting Tibetan Settlement is located at Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. It is around 150 km from Yinkiong the Head Quarter of the District. It is mostly rainy season for 8 months throughout the year. May, June and July have the most rainfall. During the rainy season journey becomes challenging. However, winter season receives less rain. Therefore, journey towards Tuting, during winter, becomes comfy and less challenging. The settlement is also situated nearby then banks of Yarlung Tsangpo or Tachok Khabab (Brahmaputra, Dihang or Siang). One can enjoy mesmerize view of the river.

943

Initial Population

1088

Present Population

No. Of Village

There are 17 Villages scattered in and around Tuting. Namely Bishing, Gelling, Norbuling, Bona, Kopu, Nyering, Payingdem, Nyukhang, Yortong, Mankota, Tashigong and Simuling/Yarmiling which are situated out of Tuting. Whereas Pekong/Podong, Bihariline, PI Line,ALC Line and Lali Basti which are situated in Tuting. Of them Gelling is the nearest village to the Indo-Tibetan border. Because of scattered condition there are average distance of 9 kmbetween each village. However, few villages are at the average distance of 30 km.

Residents’ Livelihood

In Tuting, residents are mostly farmers including few people depending on small business and Army (Dangshab).Thus, half of the population is depending on agriculture section. What they rear are stored for later consumption or sometime donate for religious activities.The main agricultural crops are maize, rice and finger millet. Some residents do small business to meet day to day expenses. These days a few residents have started to their winter sweater selling business. In early days Tuting seemed to be very backward place, however, situations are improving now.

Facilities in the settlement

Since our settlement is scattered there is no school and co-operative society facilities as other settlements do have. Our children are enrolled in some Indian government schools and private school situated here. But mostly, parents prefer to send their children to CTA funded schools so that children will have Tibetan way upbringing and will get opportunity to learn and explore Tibetan culture and root as well.

Health & Hospital

In Tuting, we have Tibetan Primary Health Care Centre funded by Tibetan Voluntary Health Association, CTA. Currently we have two nurses. There is also a branch of Men-Tse-Khang in our area.

Pilgrim Sites & Monastery

There are many pilgrim sites in and around Tuting. Some pilgrims are on walking distance of 3 days. The journey starts in the mid of July and ends around the end of September. The settlement has 17 monasteries, namely:

  1. Ogyen Phendeling (ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕན་བདེ་གླིང་།)
  2. Tashi Choeling (བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  3. Deden Tashi Choeling (བདེ་ལྡན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  4. Gaphel Dejungling (དགེ་འཕེལ་བདེ་འབྱུང་གླིང་།)
  5. Chakdor Jinjugling (ཕྱག་རྡོར་བྱིན་འཇུག་གླིང་།)
  6. Dungkar Choeling (དུང་དཀར་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  7. Kunga Choeling (ཀུན་དགའ་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  8. Ogyen Choeling (ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  9. Ati Woeselling (ཨ་ཏི་འོད་གསལ་གླིང་།)
  10. Deden Choeling (བདེ་ལྡན་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  11. Thekchen Choeling (ཐེག་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  12. Ewam Khyentse Woekarling (ཨེ་ཝྃ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་འོད་དཀར་གླིང་།)
  13. Anu Dechenling (ཨ་ནུ་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་།)
  14. Pema Choeling (པདྨ་ཆོས་གླིང་།)
  15. Dongag Dhargyeling (མདོ་སྔགས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།)
  16. Nge Sang Dongag Jangchup Dhargyeling (ངེས་གསང་མདོ་སྔགས་བྱང་ཆུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།)
  17. Dudul Pemachoeling (བདུད་འདུལ་པདྨ་ཆོས་གླིང་།)

Administrative setup

Tibetan Settlement Office comes under the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration. The Settlement officer is appointed by the CTA. He acts in connecting people with the CTA. He has to look after the welfare of all the people including the projects sanctioned.

Group Leaders

There 17 village leaders for the 17 scattered villages. The village leaders play many pivotal roles in the development of our settlements. Any project that is sanctioned in a village shall be implemented in the presence of the village leader who has to consult and report the status of project to our Tibetan Settlement Officer. They act like a bridge between our office and the public.

Travelling Mode

Nearest Railway Station: Dibrugarh Railway Station, Assam

Nearest Airport: Mohanbari Airport, Dibrugarh, Assam