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Traditional folk media are sound, visual, and sign language-based indigenous media formats. Folklore, folk tales, dance, song, drama, puppetry, and other forms of traditional folk media exist. Different communities have employed traditional folk media for communication from the dawn of mankind. It arose as a result of the requirements of diverse castes, communities, linguistic, and ethnic groups, and is thus closely linked to grassroots culture and social activities. The Hmar tribe migrated from China and settled first in Burma, then in Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam's North Cachar Hills, which is known as Dima Hasao. The region is having most problem in drug abuse and unwanted illegal drugs like drinking, local smoke ad injecting etc. The research paper is an attempt to find out the effectiveness of folk media, how it can be useful to give awareness and information against drug abuse among the Hmar people of Harangjao with population of 160, Umrangsou with population of 76 and Molhoi with population of 83.The study is based on both quantitative as well as qualitative research. The approaches used were quantitative, qualitative, and participatory. The respondent's interview schedule was used to acquire quantitative data. Primary data were collected by questionnaire schedule, Purposive sampling method was used to collect the data. |
