{"id":38103,"date":"2018-07-27T00:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=38103"},"modified":"2018-07-27T00:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:24:26","slug":"education-must-be-given-top-priority-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/education-must-be-given-top-priority-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Education must be given top priority: Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 27:<\/strong> Governor BD Mishra on Thursday emphasized that education must be given top priority in the state.<br \/>\n&#8220;The students&#8217; academic welfare must be taken due care of by the principals and headmasters, with due assistance from the deputy directors of school education in the districts and the district administration,&#8221; Mishra said during a meeting with Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Chief Secretary Satya Gopal at the Raj Bhavan here.<br \/>\nHe emphasized on the need for expediting the distribution of textbooks to the students. He also shared his observation regarding private universities, and suggested establishing a regulatory body &#8220;to be set up sooner&#8221; to monitor and assist in proper functioning of the private universities.<br \/>\nBesides education, the three discussed other issues, such as health, road communication, and law and order.<br \/>\nMishra urged Pema and Gopal to facilitate the NCC authorities in commissioning an NCC unit in every higher secondary school and college in the state.<br \/>\nThe governor also discussed with the chief minister and the chief secretary the matter of &#8220;unpleasant state boundary incidents&#8221; between the police and the people of Assam, and advised convening a governor and chief minister level meeting of the two states to resolve the issue for good.<br \/>\nThe matter of the Indian Air Force&#8217;s (IAF) firing range in Dollungmukh also came up in the discussion, in view of ensuring the safety of the people of the area without disrupting the battle-worthiness of the IAF fighter squadrons.<br \/>\nThe CM and the CS briefed the governor on the initiatives and achievements of the state government in various fields. They took note of the governor&#8217;s observations, and assured him that action would be taken to address them. (PRO, Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jul 27: Governor BD Mishra on Thursday emphasized that education must be given top priority in the state. &#8220;The students&#8217; academic welfare must be taken due care of by the principals and headmasters, with due assistance from the deputy directors of school education in the districts and the district administration,&#8221; Mishra said during a [&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-38103","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\/38103","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=38103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}