{"id":50947,"date":"2018-11-05T02:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=50947"},"modified":"2018-11-05T02:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:39:04","slug":"awareness-progs-on-ggd-movement-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/awareness-progs-on-ggd-movement-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness progs on GGD movement held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 4<\/strong>: The Northeast regional unit of the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD) organised a couple of awareness programmes on the &#8216;Green good deeds (GGD)&#8217; movement at Dera Natung Government College (DNGC) and Vivekananda Central School (VCS) here on 31 October and 1 November, respectively.<br \/>\nGGD is a societal movement launched by union environment, forests &amp; climate change minister Harsh Vardhan to protect the environment and promote good living in the country. It comprises a list of over 500 actions prepared to motivate and involve the masses in environment protection.<br \/>\nThe BRICS nations &#8211; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa &#8211; have decided to include GGDs in the agenda of the next environment ministers&#8217; meeting in 2019 in Brazil.<br \/>\nDuring the awareness programmes here, GBPNIHESD scientist Dr KS Kanwal introduced the participants to the movement, and urged them to sensitize the people to environmental protection and conservation of nature.<br \/>\nDNGC Principal Dr NT Rikam underlined the role of students in environment conservation activities, while the college&#8217;s Zoology HoD Dr P Nanda urged the people to change their behaviour and carry out their responsibilities in the era of climate change and global warming.<br \/>\nVCS chairman N Suresh Babu drew attention to environmental pollution and their solution, and expressed hope that the students would share the message with their friends and family.<br \/>\nAudio-visual presentations on saving energy, reducing garbage, conserving water and reducing air pollution at the personal level were showcased during the programmes, which were attended by over 200 students.<br \/>\nGBPNIHESD staff Drs Kesar Chand and Wishfully, along with engineer Om Prakash Arya and researchers were also present at the programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 4: The Northeast regional unit of the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD) organised a couple of awareness programmes on the &#8216;Green good deeds (GGD)&#8217; movement at Dera Natung Government College (DNGC) and Vivekananda Central School (VCS) here on 31 October and 1 November, respectively. GGD is 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-50947","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\/50947","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=50947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}