{"id":26962,"date":"2018-04-27T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=26962"},"modified":"2018-04-27T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:05:17","slug":"encourage-textile-industries-taga-urges-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/encourage-textile-industries-taga-urges-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage textile industries, Taga urges Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Apr 26:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Textiles Minister Tamiyo Taga urged the Centre to make efforts to encourage textile industries in Arunachal.<br \/>\nDuring a textile ministers&#8217; meeting here on Thursday to boost the handloom-handicrafts sector, Taga requested Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani to set up hosiery and apparel manufacturing units in every district of Arunachal.<br \/>\nShe also sought establishment of power looms, yarn dyeing processing units, raw material banks, silk spinning mills, and crafts villages with modern wayside amenities in each district, besides a one-time grant of infrastructure development fund and a one-time fund for installment of improved technology inputs.<br \/>\nTaga apprised Irani of the pending schemes in the textile ministry which are assured but not yet approved.<br \/>\nThe union minister informed that some schemes are drafted slowly &#8220;due to new guidelines and rules&#8221; but assured that all the schemes would be sanctioned soon.<br \/>\nCommissioner Tahang Taggu and ST Morcha president Hinium Tachu accompanied Taga at the meeting.<br \/>\nRafting expedition flagged off (Gandhi darang)-8 GEKU, Apr 26: Tourism Secretary Dr Joram Beda on Wednesday flagged off a rafting expedition down the Siang river here in Upper Siang district.<br \/>\nThemed &#8216;Siang Rush 2018&#8217;, the three-day expedition is being organized by Abor Country Travel &amp; Expedition on behalf of the tourism department. The participants include a travel writer, a filmmaker, government officials, adventure tour operators, and others &#8211; collectively dubbed &#8216;Friends of Siang&#8217; &#8211; besides three kayak experts and a river guide.<br \/>\nExtolling the state&#8217;s potential in white water rafting, as also the suitability of the Siang river for such activities, Dr Beda said his department &#8220;is ready to make this event a national championship event from next year onwards,&#8221; and to develop various parts of the state as tourist destinations.<br \/>\nEvent organizer Oken Tayeng said the idea behind organizing the event &#8220;is just to make the river system of the Siang a rafting spot,&#8221; adding that, if properly tapped, such events would boost the local economy.<br \/>\nThe expedition team will touch land at Pasighat on 27 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 26: Arunachal Pradesh Textiles Minister Tamiyo Taga urged the Centre to make efforts to encourage textile industries in Arunachal. During a textile ministers&#8217; meeting here on Thursday to boost the handloom-handicrafts sector, Taga requested Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani to set up hosiery and apparel manufacturing units in every district of Arunachal. [&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-26962","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\/26962","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=26962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}