{"id":188145,"date":"2022-04-05T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=188145"},"modified":"2022-04-05T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:06:47","slug":"over-100-airguns-surrendered-in-boleng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/over-100-airguns-surrendered-in-boleng\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 airguns surrendered in Boleng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BOLENG, 4 Apr:<\/strong> At least 110 airguns were surrendered before Environment &amp; Forests Minister Mama Natung during an Airgun Surrender Abhiyan programme organised by the environment &amp; forests department here in Siang district on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commending the people of the district for voluntarily surrendering their airguns, Natung said, &#8220;Nature has been showering its blessing on us in various forms. Now it&#8217;s time for us to give back to nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Airgun Surrender Abhiyan is not only a campaign but a movement to make Arunachal an airguns-free state,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Natung said that the state government is working on a policy to compensate those who have surrendered their guns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expressing concern over deforestation, the minister informed that the department will organise a state-level meeting with all panchayat leaders in May &#8220;to frame a resolution against deforestation as well as planting more trees in the respective areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, responding to the demand of the local MLAs of the district, Natung assured to create a separate forest division in Siang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, MLAs Kumsi Sidisow, Ojing Tasing and Talem Taboh, forest department officials, and the DC attended the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOLENG, 4 Apr: At least 110 airguns were surrendered before Environment &amp; Forests Minister Mama Natung during an Airgun Surrender Abhiyan programme organised by the environment &amp; forests department here in Siang district on Monday. Commending the people of the district for voluntarily surrendering their airguns, Natung said, &#8220;Nature has been showering its blessing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188145","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=188145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}