{"id":169308,"date":"2021-08-17T00:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169308"},"modified":"2021-08-17T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:53:33","slug":"botanical-garden-to-come-up-in-assams-guwahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/botanical-garden-to-come-up-in-assams-guwahati\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanical garden to come up in Assam&#8217;s Guwahati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Aug 16 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday laid the foundation stone of a botanical garden in Guwahati to be developed at an expenditure of Rs 38.51 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarma planted saplings of &#8216;Rudraksh&#8217; on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The botanical garden will be developed at the Old Jail premise in Fancy Bazar area near the Brahmaputra river.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spread across over 56 bighas of land, the botanical garden along with other facilities will be built at Rs 38.51 crore, a release from the Chief Minister&#8217;s Office (CMO) said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The proposed Botanical Garden has been designed in such a way that it will provide much needed open space for people to breathe fresh air in the heart of the city,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Different species of plants with significant botanical importance will be a source of study and research for enthusiasts, conservationists and environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project aims at developing the garden with recreational activities for morning and evening walkers, meandering walkways, lotus ponds and amenities such as eateries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Aug 16 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday laid the foundation stone of a botanical garden in Guwahati to be developed at an expenditure of Rs 38.51 crore. Sarma planted saplings of &#8216;Rudraksh&#8217; on the occasion. The botanical garden will be developed at the Old Jail premise in Fancy Bazar area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169308","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=169308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}