{"id":137090,"date":"2020-09-12T01:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137090"},"modified":"2020-09-12T01:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:28:58","slug":"cm-treks-to-meet-people-of-remote-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/12\/cm-treks-to-meet-people-of-remote-village\/","title":{"rendered":"CM treks to meet people of remote village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 11:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu, currently touring his home constituency Mukto in Tawang district, trekked a distance of 24 kms for 11 hours to meet the people of a remote village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 41-year-old chief minister walked through mountain terrains and forests to reach Luguthang village, 97 kms from Tawang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was an arduous journey while crossing Karpu La (16,000 ft) to Luguthang (14,500 ft),&#8221; Khandu tweeted after returning to Tawang on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The village, located at a height of 14,500 feet above sea level, in Thingbu tehsil of Tawang district, has a population of 50 people who live in 10 houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Had a review meeting with Luguthang villagers to ensure that benefits of every flagship programme reaches the last man standing in forward areas,&#8221; the chief minister tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journey to the village, which is inaccessible by road, is a mesmerizing one as one has to cross the eye-catching Karpu La mountain and several natural lakes that fall on the route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief minister, along with Tawang MLA Tsering Tashi and villagers and monks of the Tawang monastery, attended the consecration of Jangchup stupa the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stupa has been erected in the name of Khandu&#8217;s father and former chief minister Dorjee Khandu who died in a helicopter crash near Luguthang village while returning from Tawang to Itanagar on 30 April, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The chief minister spent two nights at the house of a villager before trekking back,&#8221; sources in Tawang said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luguthang is mostly inhabited by Brokpas, a nomadic yak-herding tribe. They spend the summer months around the higher Himalayas in search of grazing grounds for their yaks and come down to the lower areas in harsh winter. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 11: Chief Minister Pema Khandu, currently touring his home constituency Mukto in Tawang district, trekked a distance of 24 kms for 11 hours to meet the people of a remote village. The 41-year-old chief minister walked through mountain terrains and forests to reach Luguthang village, 97 kms from Tawang. &#8220;It was an arduous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}