{"id":16221,"date":"2018-01-15T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2018-01-15T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:35:03","slug":"over-25000-pilgrims-visit-parshuram-kund-on-makar-sankranti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/15\/over-25000-pilgrims-visit-parshuram-kund-on-makar-sankranti\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 25,000 pilgrims visit Parshuram Kund on Makar Sankranti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TEZU, Jan 14:<\/strong> Over 25,000 pilgrims and tourists from across the country and abroad visited Parshuram Kund during Makar Sankranti to take the holy dip.<br \/>\nThis was informed by Wakro EAC D Riba, who is also the &#8216;mela officer&#8217;, reports DIPRO.<br \/>\n&#8216;However, the number of visiting pilgrims and tourists is expected to be higher as the figure provided was from Wakro subdivision only. The number of tourists and pilgrims from Tezu-Tohanggam route has not been reported so far,&#8217; the report said.<br \/>\nSo far, entry of 1211 vehicles, including 229 heavy, 133 medium and 849 light vehicles, have been registered at the Wakro check gate, Riba informed.<br \/>\nLohit Deputy Commissioner Karma Leki, who is camping at the kund premises, has left no stone unturned to ensure a successful and incident-free mela. He is supervising all the arrangements and activities in the kund area, said the report.<br \/>\nAdequate security arrangements have been put in place by deploying CRPF and IRBn jawans and civil police personnel. Volunteers from various NGOs and a school from Wakro are also assisting the authority in managing the crowd.<br \/>\nThe Lohit NIC DIO informed that live event of the Parshuram Kund Mela is being webcast at www.lohittourism.in.<br \/>\nTemporary medical camps and counters have been set up by the Army, the ITBP and the civil administration.<br \/>\nNo untoward incident has been reported so far.<br \/>\nMany locals and domestic tourists from nearby Assam also thronged the kund site to witness the festivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEZU, Jan 14: Over 25,000 pilgrims and tourists from across the country and abroad visited Parshuram Kund during Makar Sankranti to take the holy dip. This was informed by Wakro EAC D Riba, who is also the &#8216;mela officer&#8217;, reports DIPRO. &#8216;However, the number of visiting pilgrims and tourists is expected to be higher as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16221","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\/16221","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=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}