ABOUT

Pakke Kessang district is one of the districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeast India. The district was carved out of East Kameng district with an area of 1932 km2 in 2018 by creating a new district from five southernmost administrative units of East Kameng district, namely: Pijerang, Passa Valley (Gumte and Rilloh villages), Pakke-Kessang in Pakke Kessang, Dissing Passo and Seijosa (Pakke Tiger Reserve lies inside it), with district headquarters at Lemmi (near Seppa).It shares district borders with West Kameng district to the west, East Kameng district to north-west, Sonitpur and Biswanat district of Assam to the south, Papum Pare district to southeast and Kra Daadi district to the east, which was bifurcated from East Kameng district on 14 December 2018..Seijosa is a circle in Pakke Kessang district. It has now an Additional Deputy Commissioner office. Mainly Nyishi, Galo and Puroik people inhabit the place. The Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary is also located here. The Seijosa town is situated along the river Pakke. Some of the villages are Lanka, Jolly, Dayaso, Mobuso-II, Taroboso, Murgaso, Goloso Forest Camp, Bali-Basti, A/2, Darling, Rodoso etc. It is a great place for a picnic, every year a lot of tourists come to Seijosa to picnic. Seijosa was heavily flooded in 2004 destroying her beauty but is developing well now. The Assam Government has built an irrigation dam locally known as ND Dam on the inner line check gate of Seijosa. Around the foothills of Seijosa, there are frequent sights of wild elephants, other wild animals and varieties of bird specially Horbills from Pakke Tiger Reserve. Seijosa has a State Bank of India Branch established in 1986 which is serving to around 7,000 population of Pakke Kessang Constitutancy and also peoples from surrounding villages of Assam from Itakhola to Seijosa.[