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YINGKIONG, 22 Jan:<\/strong> The Upper Siang district administration, in collaboration with the district unit of the Arunachal Pradesh Women’s Welfare Society (APWWS), conducted an all-woman marathon themed ‘Run for drug-free society and save family’, here on Sunday.<\/p>\n Fifty-one women – aged 16 and above -from all walks of life participated in the 10-km run.<\/p>\n Albina Doley bagged the first prize (Rs 8,000), while Bame Modi won the second prize (Rs 4,000), and Jomkyam Libang bagged the third prize (Rs 2,000).<\/p>\n The winners will be felicitated during the upcoming Republic Day celebration.<\/p>\n Later, addressing a gathering at the multipurpose hall here, district APWWS president Kalpana Perme spoke on the role of women, especially mothers, in fighting drug abuse and creating a drug-free society.<\/p>\n She urged all to “come forward and cooperate in the drive against antisocial activities and create a healthy, drug-free society.”<\/p>\n EAC (HQ) Rajiv Chiduni, APWWS secretary (health & hygiene) Damini Tali, and APWWS general secretary Kosiang Pangkam also spoke on issues related to the drug problem.<\/p>\n An Adi music video to raise awareness on the ill-effects of drug use among the youths, titled ‘Drugs Em Tima Peka (Say No To Drugs)’, directed by Alokong Litin, was also screened. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YINGKIONG, 22 Jan: The Upper Siang district administration, in collaboration with the district unit of the Arunachal Pradesh Women’s Welfare Society (APWWS), conducted an all-woman marathon themed ‘Run for drug-free society and save family’, here on Sunday. Fifty-one women – aged 16 and above -from all walks of life participated in the 10-km run. Albina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209354","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\/209354","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=209354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}