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BASAR, 21 Nov:<\/strong> Local NGO GRK, which works for socioeconomic uplift and protection of environment, recently organized an exposure programme for a delegation of public leaders, GBs, women and others of Toru circle of Papum Pare district, headed by Toru ZPM Taba Rama and DDSE T Tara, here in Leparada district.<\/p>\n GRK secretary-general Mimar Basar, while welcoming the 40+ guests from Papum Pare to the inaugural ceremony of the ecotourism camp ‘Lai ho kumki’ highlighted the NGO’s achievements.<\/p>\n “The transformation of our dwindling natural resources through conservation and development, and empowering our community into productive human capital and channelling it towards attracting tourism as a source of sustainable economic avenue is a major step we think we may have achieved,” said the secretary-general.<\/p>\n GRK vice president Hengo Basar emphasized on “change in a positive thought process in the community as a precondition for any change to occur,” and said that “restriction on open-air rearing of pigs and shifting towards enclosed rearing of the same and simultaneously achieving the status of open defecation-free villages helped in dramatically reducing vector borne diseases like malaria, typhoid, dysentery, etc, even before the government had launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014.”<\/p>\n The exposure trip concluded on a positive note, with the delegation from Toru committing to replicate the NGO’s model of community-based voluntary effort to foster disciplined growth and progress in their society.<\/p>\n The Toru ZPM hailed the initiatives taken up by the GRK and lauded the host community for their warm hospitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BASAR, 21 Nov: Local NGO GRK, which works for socioeconomic uplift and protection of environment, recently organized an exposure programme for a delegation of public leaders, GBs, women and others of Toru circle of Papum Pare district, headed by Toru ZPM Taba Rama and DDSE T Tara, here in Leparada district. GRK secretary-general Mimar Basar, […]<\/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-177403","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\/177403","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=177403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}