{"id":214973,"date":"2023-04-18T00:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=214973"},"modified":"2023-04-18T00:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:04:22","slug":"nes-to-felicitate-former-prez-bengia-tolum-with-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/nes-to-felicitate-former-prez-bengia-tolum-with-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NES to felicitate former prez Bengia Tolum with lifetime achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 17 Apr:<\/strong> The Nyishi Elite Society (NES) on Monday announced that it will felicitate its former president, Dr Bengia Tolum, with the NES Lifetime Achievement Award &#8220;for his immeasurable contributions in social sectors, cultural reformation and unifying the Nyishi tribe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was announced by NES president Tana Showren on Monday in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am honoured and privileged to announce today that he will be conferred the NES lifetime achievement award on the 16th Nyishi Day,&#8221; said Showren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have been making all other efforts for community-related engagement, but this time, we are doing something in a very special way. We want to engage meaningfully with the youthful minds to harness their latent potential talents,&#8221; he added, and informed that, this year, the NES has introduced traditional games and sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Showren went on to inform that traditional games and sports like archery, tug-of-war and traditional wrestling will be played on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NES president expressed appreciation for the different volleyball teams which have come to participate, stating that &#8220;this makes a younger generation imbibe the responsibility of being physically sound, and also, they think about the culture and socioeconomic progress of their society, as well as nation-building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further informed that this year, Nyishi Day would be celebrated in every nook and corner of the state where Nyishis reside. He informed also that a symposium and literary debates are scheduled to be organised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 17 Apr: The Nyishi Elite Society (NES) on Monday announced that it will felicitate its former president, Dr Bengia Tolum, with the NES Lifetime Achievement Award &#8220;for his immeasurable contributions in social sectors, cultural reformation and unifying the Nyishi tribe.&#8221; This was announced by NES president Tana Showren on Monday in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214973","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\/214973","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=214973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}