{"id":272496,"date":"2025-10-20T00:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=272496"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:37:29","slug":"make-reading-a-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/make-reading-a-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Make reading a habit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TEZU, 19 Oct:<\/strong> Col Roopak Kumar Thakur, commanding officer of the 9 Rajput, appealed to readers to make reading a habit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Knowledge is the only thing which increases every time you invest. This is the best investment a child can think of,&#8221; Col Thakur said, emphasizing the importance of reading books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was addressing a gathering of readers after a prize distribution ceremony conducted by the Bamboosa Library and the Forum of Library Activists, Medo at the Bamboosa Library here on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The competitions for which prizes were awarded included a quiz for college students organized jointly with AIR Tezu on &#8217;90 Golden Years of Akashvani&#8217;, an Air Force Day painting contest, and a written quiz on literacy and books held in September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Akashvani Tezu Assistant Director Anand Miyi distributed the prizes of the Indian Air Force Day painting contest held on 8 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WRD Executive Engineer Sofreng Hakung congratulated the volunteers\u00a0 and the prize winners and said, &#8220;You are doing a great service to our community; I hope you will continue to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior volunteer Banika Kri highlighted the Lohit Youth Library Movement and its principles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme also featured poem recitations by junior volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEZU, 19 Oct: Col Roopak Kumar Thakur, commanding officer of the 9 Rajput, appealed to readers to make reading a habit. &#8220;Knowledge is the only thing which increases every time you invest. This is the best investment a child can think of,&#8221; Col Thakur said, emphasizing the importance of reading books. He was addressing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272496","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\/272496","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=272496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}