{"id":215005,"date":"2023-04-19T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=215005"},"modified":"2023-04-19T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:52:32","slug":"world-heritage-day-celebrated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/world-heritage-day-celebrated-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Heritage Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, 18 Apr:<\/strong> The Khonsa battalion of the Assam Rifles (AR) celebrated the World Heritage Day here in Tirap district on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme of this year&#8217;s World Heritage Day was &#8216;Heritage changes&#8217;, and it was celebrated to &#8220;spread awareness about the importance of the diversity of cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations,&#8221; the Tirap DIPRO informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6 AR Commanding Officer Col Aman Ahluwalia, who inaugurated the programme, expressed appreciation for the panchayat leaders, village chiefs, GBs, and members of the Nocte Mother&#8217;s Association and SHGs of Tirap and Longding districts for participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khela Bunting ZPM Tumwang Lowang, speaking on the occasion, said that &#8220;the day is about preserving human heritage, diversity, and vulnerability of the world&#8217;s built monuments and heritage sites,&#8221; and called for &#8220;concerted efforts to protect and conserve the heritage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bari-Basip ZPM Tediap Hallang expressed hope that the celebration would &#8220;bring awareness among the people about conserving our cultural diversity which was held dear by our ancestors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lowang, Hallang, GHSS Khonsa Principal KC Lowangcha and the locals expressed appreciation for the AR for organising a &#8216;mega mela&#8217; as part of the celebration with the aim of encouraging the SHGs of different communities to showcase their skills in various trades and sell their organic products, the DIPRO said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The history department of Kamki (West Siang)-based Donyi-Polo Government College organised a heritage walk from Malinithan to Akashi Ganga in Lower Siang district to mark the World Heritage Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-two BA 5th semester students (history major) participated in the guided heritage walk, which was led by faculty members of the college&#8217;s history department, Geyir Angu, Duli Ete and Jumbi Kato Lobom, the college informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, 18 Apr: The Khonsa battalion of the Assam Rifles (AR) celebrated the World Heritage Day here in Tirap district on Tuesday. The theme of this year&#8217;s World Heritage Day was &#8216;Heritage changes&#8217;, and it was celebrated to &#8220;spread awareness about the importance of the diversity of cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215005","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\/215005","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=215005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}