{"id":268391,"date":"2025-08-04T01:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268391"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:20:38","slug":"mla-urges-youths-to-stay-away-from-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/mla-urges-youths-to-stay-away-from-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA urges youths to stay away from drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, 3 Aug:<\/strong> MLA Honchun Ngandam urged youths to stay away from drugs, warning that substance abuse leads to destruction of lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a gathering at a Sampoornata Abhiyan Samman Samaroh at the Ngowang Multipurpose Community Hall in Pongchau on Sunday, the MLA emphasized the importance of living a meaningful life and making constructive contributions to the society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All should make best use of the opportunities which are being created through the interventions of the government,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ngandam felicitated Phohee Wangsa, the state topper in CBSE Class 12 exam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0from Pongchau village, with a cash award of Rs 50,000, and encouraged others to excel in their fields of activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MLA also inaugurated the Akankasha Haat, showcasing the products of Pongchau&#8217;s artisans, and lauded the efforts of the ArSRLM &#8220;for the array of local PFMME products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kanubari ADC Yashwant Meena spoke about the fundamental aspects of aspirational block programme and how they can be leveraged to facilitate and expedite development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Longding SP Dekio Gumja exhorted the public to &#8220;shed negativity and strive for inclusive growth.&#8221; He reminded the people of their rich cultural heritage and well-framed village administration system, terming them assets for a strong and vibrant community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP gave assurance that, after the completion of border infrastructure projects next year, the security scenario of the region would greatly improve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, the Pongchau administration felicitated the field workers and BLOs of Pongchau aspirational block with certificates and awards in recognition of their hard work and sincerity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The administration also distributed blood pressure and blood sugar monitoring kits to each village in Pongchau block to facilitate expeditious saturation of all healthcare related KPIs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Major challenges in development works and effective solutions were also discussed during an open discussion session. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, 3 Aug: MLA Honchun Ngandam urged youths to stay away from drugs, warning that substance abuse leads to destruction of lives. Addressing a gathering at a Sampoornata Abhiyan Samman Samaroh at the Ngowang Multipurpose Community Hall in Pongchau on Sunday, the MLA emphasized the importance of living a meaningful life and making constructive contributions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268391","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=268391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}