{"id":18482,"date":"2018-02-05T01:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=18482"},"modified":"2018-02-05T01:18:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:48:51","slug":"youth-carnival-organized-to-identify-sports-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/05\/youth-carnival-organized-to-identify-sports-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth carnival organized to identify sports talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZIRO, Feb 4:<\/strong> The two-day Ziro Youth Carnival, organized by a group of former sportspersons of Lower Subansiri district with the aim of identifying raw sports talents and guiding them to become good sportspersons, concluded here on 3 February.<br \/>\n&#8220;The tribal people have innate talents in the field of sports. Proper training, guidance and support are what they need,&#8221; said event director Nending Ommo.<br \/>\nMichi Takum, five-time state badminton champion, recalled those days when there were no proper training or coaching facilities.<br \/>\n&#8220;We could have achieved more had there been proper training and coaching facilities,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The organizers mainly comprised sportspersons and enthusiasts who had represented Arunachal Pradesh at various national-level events and pioneered games and sports activities in Ziro and Lower Subansiri,&#8221; informed organising committee chairman Taru Abin.<br \/>\nMore than 100 youths participated in the events held on the second day at the playground of the government higher secondary school in Hija.<br \/>\nDiibo Youths were declared the overall champion of the carnival.<br \/>\nTraditional amusement and leisure sports like yalla\u00f1 joka swnnw\u00f1 (shot put), wdaa\u00f1 chi&#8217;ka swnnw\u00f1 (javelin throw), wssa\u00f1 lyoka swnnw\u00f1 (high jump and long jump), and hargo harlo harka swnnw\u00f1 (race) were organized.<br \/>\nLiterary events were organized on the first day at Saint Claret College.<br \/>\nTalks on the topics, &#8216;Apatani cultural landscape as world heritage site -challenges ahead&#8217;, &#8216;Illusions of suicide and prevention&#8217;, and &#8216;Swacch Bharat Abhiyan &#8211; Clean India Mission&#8217; were delivered by DMO Dr Tage Kanno, Dr Hage Bamin (Ayurveda) and Zilla Swachh Bharat Prerak Beauty Kena, respectively.<br \/>\nYachuli PWD Division SE Dani Gambo, and Lower Subansiri DDSE Hibu Tama also attended the closing function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIRO, Feb 4: The two-day Ziro Youth Carnival, organized by a group of former sportspersons of Lower Subansiri district with the aim of identifying raw sports talents and guiding them to become good sportspersons, concluded here on 3 February. &#8220;The tribal people have innate talents in the field of sports. Proper training, guidance and support [&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-18482","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\/18482","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=18482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}