{"id":47405,"date":"2018-10-02T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=47405"},"modified":"2018-10-02T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:30:27","slug":"dept-seeks-community-participation-to-make-thembang-waste-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/dept-seeks-community-participation-to-make-thembang-waste-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept seeks community participation to make Thembang waste-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>THEMBANG, Oct 1:<\/strong> The tourism department sought community participation in making Thembang in West Kameng district a waste-free heritage village.<br \/>\nThe department on Sunday organized a programme here to mark the conclusion of the cleanliness fortnight.<br \/>\nTourism Assistant Director Bengia Manna Sonam highlighted the initiatives taken up by the department to promote Thembang as a heritage village, and its endeavour to make it a zero-waste village with the involvement of the community members.<br \/>\nShe exhorted the villagers to have a sense of belongingness and play an active role in keeping their surroundings clean.<br \/>\nDirang ADC Toko Babu emphasized the importance of involving the community in tourism promotion. He assured the villagers of his support to the mission. The ADC also inaugurated the newly-constructed material recovery facility here.<br \/>\nMerwyn Coutinho, co-founder of Further and Beyond Foundation, explained the community-based waste management model which proposes to create an efficient integrated solid waste management solution for Thembang village.<br \/>\nHighlighting the vision for Thembang heritage village, he gave a detailed account of the role and responsibilities of the Thembang Waste Management Committee.<br \/>\nDistrict Tourism Officer TW Thongdok also spoke.<br \/>\nA photo exhibition by Ankit Ranjan Pathak was staged in the village community hall. Dustbins (provided by the PHE department) and saplings were later distributed among the villagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEMBANG, Oct 1: The tourism department sought community participation in making Thembang in West Kameng district a waste-free heritage village. The department on Sunday organized a programme here to mark the conclusion of the cleanliness fortnight. Tourism Assistant Director Bengia Manna Sonam highlighted the initiatives taken up by the department to promote Thembang as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47405","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\/47405","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=47405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}