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BASAR, 5 Dec:<\/strong> “With so much of tourism potential in the district and hospitable people, Basar will surely become a tourist hub once the Likabali-Basar-Aalo-Mechukha road is completed,” said Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Monday morning, prior to flagging off the ‘Basar Running Ultra-Trail Experience-2022 (BRUTE 2.0)’ from the Gori field here in Leparada district.<\/p>\n Addressing the participants, Mein lauded the initiative of Gumin Rego Kilaju to generate awareness about conservation of natural resources and maintenance of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n “BRUTE has been initiated to promote the Likabali-Basar-Mechukha circuit, and to encourage healthy life,” Mein said, and gave assurance that the state government would support “the next editions of BRUTE.”<\/p>\n He appealed to the participants from other states to “carry good memories from the state and spread the positive message when they go back to their home places.”<\/p>\n Chief Minister Pema Khandu, union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, Sports Minister Mama Natung and MLAs Gokar Basar and Nyamar Karbak also participated in the run, in the 5-km category.<\/p>\n BRUTE 2.0 had four categories – 5 kms, 10 kms, 30 kms, and 60 kms – and over 100 runners from other states, including a 60-year-old man from Assam, participated in the event.<\/p>\n Mein visited plastic-free village Gori Erku (Gori-II). He also visited the Hi river to have a glimpse of freshwater fish conservation, and released fish seedlings into the river.<\/p>\n Earlier, on Sunday, Mein visited the EB Project – a model composite project of water, forest and wildlife conservation, sustainable agriculture, and ecotourism – of Horticulture Research & Development Institute Head Egam Basar.<\/p>\n The project is based on scientific methods to rejuvenate the drying rivers through integrated spring shed development.<\/p>\n The DCM also sponsored a fish pond for a local unemployed youth in Soi village, and released fresh fingerlings into the pond. (DCM’s PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BASAR, 5 Dec: “With so much of tourism potential in the district and hospitable people, Basar will surely become a tourist hub once the Likabali-Basar-Aalo-Mechukha road is completed,” said Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Monday morning, prior to flagging off the ‘Basar Running Ultra-Trail Experience-2022 (BRUTE 2.0)’ from the Gori field here in Leparada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206421","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\/206421","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=206421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}