the village is home to people of tangkhul naga tribe. majority of the inhabitants are christians. agriculture is the primary occupation of the inhabitants. being a remote area, the village is often in the news for the poor transport system due to bad road condition and the inhabitants suffer most during the rainy season because of frequent landslides. kangpat is close to the porous indo-myanmar international border and the village is often used as transit route by militants for which there are frequent encounters between the indian arm force and militant groups. there had been many incidents of incursion of land by the myanmar army and kangpat is one of the villages that has lost some of its original land due to illegal encroachment by the neighboring country.