Kurung Kumey

The name of the district is drived from Subansiri river, its stream twin river Kurng and Kumey. The Subansiri river is the triburaty of Brahmaputra river, that flows from Tibet.By a Govt. of India Notification of 1914, the area covered by this district become a part of the ” Northern Section” of the “North East Frontier Track” within which entire British subject was regulated by a Inner Line in 1919. This Track was renamed as the “Subansiri Frontier Track” with the name of Kimin Sub-Agency and its Headquarter continued to be at Lakhimpur-Kimin.