{"id":51874,"date":"2018-11-18T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=51874"},"modified":"2018-11-18T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T19:12:05","slug":"arunachal-boy-bags-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/18\/arunachal-boy-bags-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal boy bags national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, Nov 17:<\/strong> Kumar Maowang Wangham, a class 5 student of VKV Niausa in Longding district, bagged the prestigious Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Ignite award.<br \/>\nWangham was awarded for his model &#8216;life jacket with an oxygen mask&#8217;, reports DIPRO<br \/>\nFormer president Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards to the winners at the NIF&#8217;s Gandhinagar office in Gujarat on Saturday.<br \/>\nMaowang was the youngest student among those who have received the award.<br \/>\nOver 90,000 submissions of students from 643 districts of all the states and union territories of India were received during the Ignite 2018 competition, which ran from 1 September, 2017, to 31 August, 2018.<br \/>\nAn exhibition showcasing award-winning ideas was also held at the venue.<br \/>\n&#8220;The idea of making a life jacket attached with oxygen mask struck into the young mind when he saw his friend drowning in the river helplessly,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, Nov 17: Kumar Maowang Wangham, a class 5 student of VKV Niausa in Longding district, bagged the prestigious Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Ignite award. Wangham was awarded for his model &#8216;life jacket with an oxygen mask&#8217;, reports DIPRO Former president Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards to the winners at the NIF&#8217;s Gandhinagar office in [&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-51874","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\/51874","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=51874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}