Phaibung
Village in Senapati district, Manipur, India
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Phaibung is a small village in the Purul subdivision of Senapati district of Manipur, India. It consists of 2 settlements namely Phaibung Khullen and Lower Phaibung which are closely connected.[1][2]
Phaibung | |
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Village | |
  Phaibung Location in Manipur  Phaibung Phaibung (India) | |
| Coordinates: 25°25′37″N 94°20′18″E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Manipur |
| District | Senapati district |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,664 (2,011) |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 795104 |
| Vehicle registration | MN |
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census:
- Phaibung Khullen: Population 4,664 (2,363 m; 2,301 f), sex ratio 974 ♀/1,000 ♂, literacy 37.3%.[3]
- Lower Phaibung: Population 990 (527 m; 463 f), sex ratio 879, literacy 49.1%.[4]
In both settlements, the population of Scheduled Tribe is more than 99 percent.[1]
Geography
Economy
The major occupation is agriculture: the majority of people are cultivators and cultivate rice, maize, and pulses. In Lower Phaibung, 99.66% out of the working population are employed with primary farm work.[1]
Administration
Along with its Gram Panchayat of local government, the village is within Chillivai Phaibung TD Block of Senapati district.[7] It is a part of Purul Assembly Constituency of Manipur Legislative Assembly and is included in the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha Constituency.[8]
Language and culture
The official language of the region used by local residents of Phaibung is Meitei, and this is denoted because Meitei is considered as a widely used lingua franca in the region of Senapati district.[9] Most of them are part of the Naga ethnic communities, and among them are the Tangkhul people. Though they speak their own Tangkhulic, the tendency of language use in inter-community communication seems to have taken place in Meitei.[10]
Infrastructure and transport
- PIN code: 795104.[11]
- Nearest urban centres: Senapati (27 km west) and Imphal (about 79 km south).[12]
- No railway station within 10 km; nearest is Jiribam.
- Served by: Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, Imphal (about 80 km).
- Accessible by: the Senapati-Phaibung rural road connecting to the east of the National Highway 2. Continued developing of the 128 km long road has encountered bottlenecks; in July 2024 The Sangai Express published the news about roads conditions in the area[13]