{"id":176887,"date":"2021-11-16T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=176887"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:14","slug":"meghalaya-cm-announces-rs-13-cr-tourism-project-for-nongkhnum-river-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/meghalaya-cm-announces-rs-13-cr-tourism-project-for-nongkhnum-river-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya CM announces Rs 13-cr tourism project for Nongkhnum river island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, Nov 15 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday announced a Rs 13 crore special package for the development of tourism infrastructure and amenities at Nongkhnum Island in West Khasi Hills district, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nongkhnum is the second-largest river island in Asia after Majuli in Assam. He visited the island with his family and was accompanied by district officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sangma interacted with producers&#8217; groups (PGs), formed under the state government&#8217;s flagship project Farmers&#8217; Collectivisation for Upscaling of Production and Marketing Systems (FOCUS) at Nongstoin. He said his government has earmarked Rs 200 crore for farmers&#8217; welfare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;FOCUS is an innovative welfare programme, whereby the government ensures that farmers enhance their productivity as well as avail benefits of credit linkages and strengthen access to markets,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed the gathering that Greater Nongstoin Water Supply Scheme is nearing completion and will be inaugurated soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief minister along with local MLA Macmillan Byrsat handed over cheques to 36 producer groups. Sangma also inspected the Nongstoin-Wahkaji and Nongstoin-Nongkhnum roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, Nov 15 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday announced a Rs 13 crore special package for the development of tourism infrastructure and amenities at Nongkhnum Island in West Khasi Hills district, officials said. Nongkhnum is the second-largest river island in Asia after Majuli in Assam. He visited the island with his [&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-176887","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\/176887","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=176887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}