{"id":157745,"date":"2021-05-07T01:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=157745"},"modified":"2021-05-07T01:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:27:18","slug":"50-villagers-surrender-airguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/50-villagers-surrender-airguns\/","title":{"rendered":"50 villagers surrender airguns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Pisi Zauing ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MIAO, 6 May:<\/strong> Fifty people from all seven villages in Namphai circle of Changlang district surrendered their airguns on Wednesday, in the presence of Miao ADC Sunny K Singh, Miao ZPM Ashamto Tikhak, Namphai ZPM Khumko Mossang, SDPO DSP Zirdo, GBs, forest officials, and members of the Miao Singpho Ramma Hpung.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the surge in Covid-19 positive cases, only a limited number of people were invited to the airgun surrender programme, organized by Namphai RFO Lichi Karlo at his office premises in Namphai-I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who surrendered their airguns were given Rs 2,000 each, along with a &#8216;surrender certificate&#8217; and nahar tree saplings. All seven GBs of Namphai circle were also given Rs 2,500 each as an encouragement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ADC said that &#8220;the campaign should emerge as a people&#8217;s movement to ensure stupendous success of the much significant abhiyan.&#8221; He appealed to all community-based organizations to &#8220;join hands and start playing an active role by brainstorming on the practice of hunting prevalent in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned of stringent action under various provisions of the forest and wildlife laws against anyone found guilty of hunting birds and other wildlife within Miao subdivision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a query from this correspondent, the ADC assured to &#8220;give special preference to those who surrender airguns at the time of awarding any benefits under the forest department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airgun surrender campaign is an initiative of the state government to dissuade people from hunting, and to create awareness on the ill-effects of killing wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Pisi Zauing ] MIAO, 6 May: Fifty people from all seven villages in Namphai circle of Changlang district surrendered their airguns on Wednesday, in the presence of Miao ADC Sunny K Singh, Miao ZPM Ashamto Tikhak, Namphai ZPM Khumko Mossang, SDPO DSP Zirdo, GBs, forest officials, and members of the Miao Singpho Ramma Hpung. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157745","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=157745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}