{"id":175560,"date":"2021-10-31T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=175560"},"modified":"2021-10-31T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:42:26","slug":"centre-plans-to-develop-75-lighthouses-as-part-of-azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsav-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/31\/centre-plans-to-develop-75-lighthouses-as-part-of-azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsav-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre plans to develop 75 lighthouses as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: Union Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAlappuzha, Oct 30 (PTI) The Centre plans to develop 75 lighthouses as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of India&#8217;s Independence, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said on Saturday.<br \/>\nInaugurating the Valiazheekal lighthouse near here, the Union Minister said in a release that it is India&#8217;s first pentagon shaped light house built at a cost of Rs 10 crore. It is also the second tallest in Kerala and has a lift facility, he added.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister had asked to develop 75 lighthouses in the country during the Amrit Mahotsav, he said.<br \/>\nAccording to the release, the Centre focuses on developing the coastal region as well as the overall growth of the country.<br \/>\nThe Union Minister also said he will take up adequate proposals from Kerala to develop tourism as well as help fishermen and the local people in the area.<br \/>\nA M Arif MP, Ramesh Chennithala, MLA and Director General of Lighthouse and Lightships, N Muruganandam, were present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alappuzha, Oct 30 (PTI) The Centre plans to develop 75 lighthouses as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of India&#8217;s Independence, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said on Saturday. Inaugurating the Valiazheekal lighthouse near here, the Union Minister said in a release that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175560","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=175560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}