{"id":17170,"date":"2018-01-24T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:49:07","slug":"apkgbvwa-demands-textbooks-in-kgbvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/apkgbvwa-demands-textbooks-in-kgbvs\/","title":{"rendered":"APKGBVWA demands textbooks in KGBVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 23:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Welfare Association (APKGBVA) has demanded that the state government immediately provide textbooks in all the 48 KGBVs in Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\nThe association stated in a release that the KGBVs throughout the state have not yet received any textbook from the DDSE offices despite the government having issued a directive in this regard.<br \/>\n\u201cAlthough the KGBVs have been receiving the school uniform fund regularly since 2016, the schools have not received textbook fund for the last three years,\u201d said APKGBVA chairman Tamuk Tania.<br \/>\nHe said that unavailability of textbooks has not only caused great difficulties in running schools in remote areas but also adversely affected students\u2019 education.<br \/>\nThe APKGBVA chairman expressed hope that the current state government would continue to give priority to girls\u2019 education by releasing funds to the KGBVs on time.<br \/>\nTania also called for a change in \u201cthe salary norms\u201d of KGBV teachers.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is imperative on the part of the central government to change the salary norms for KGBV teachers as they serve in tough and inhospitable terrains which share international borders with China, Myanmar and Bhutan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 23: The Arunachal Pradesh Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Welfare Association (APKGBVA) has demanded that the state government immediately provide textbooks in all the 48 KGBVs in Arunachal Pradesh. The association stated in a release that the KGBVs throughout the state have not yet received any textbook from the DDSE offices despite the government [&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-17170","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\/17170","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=17170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}