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NAMSAI, 7 Jul:<\/strong> Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Wednesday joined others in celebrating the annual tree-planting festival, Van Mahotsav, at Solungtoo in Lathao block of Namsai district.<\/p>\n Two hundred ornamental saplings of different species were planted along the national highway.<\/p>\n The DCM, who plated a sonaru (Casia fistula) sapling, appealed to everyone to plant more and more trees “for a greener and sustainable planet.”<\/p>\n The programme was organized at the initiative of Namsai DFO Tabong Jamoh and RFO Alok Kumar. Local people and NDRF personnel also participated in it.<\/p>\n In Pakke-Kessang district, the authorities of the Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) celebrated Van Mahotsav in Seijosa recently.<\/p>\n As part of the weeklong programme, the forest department, in collaboration with the Pakke-Kessang district unit of the VKV Alumni Association, organized a plantation drive in Firing Nallah area – a patch of land degraded due to a flashflood in 2004 – on 4 July.<\/p>\n The VKV Alumni Association has been carrying out plantation drives in Firing Nallah area for the last three years to regenerate the plot of land and restore its green cover.<\/p>\n “The recent plantation drive was supported by the district administration, the Women Welfare Association, youth groups and gaon burahs of Seijosa area,” informed PTR DFO T Pali in a release.<\/p>\n The PTR authorities also distributed 100 fruit tree saplings to the people of the fringe villages of the PTR, he said. (With input from DCM’s PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAMSAI, 7 Jul: Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Wednesday joined others in celebrating the annual tree-planting festival, Van Mahotsav, at Solungtoo in Lathao block of Namsai district. Two hundred ornamental saplings of different species were planted along the national highway. The DCM, who plated a sonaru (Casia fistula) sapling, appealed to everyone to plant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165701","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\/165701","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=165701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}