{"id":54893,"date":"2018-12-16T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=54893"},"modified":"2018-12-16T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T20:53:38","slug":"orange-festival-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/16\/orange-festival-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Festival begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tourism will be game changer for Arunachal: Pema<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAMBUK, Dec 15:<\/strong> The 5th edition of the Orange Festival of Adventure and Music (OFAM) started on a colourful note here in Lower Dibang Valley district on Saturday.<br \/>\nAddressing the inaugural event, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said tourism would be &#8220;a game changer for Arunachal, particularly for eastern Arunachal.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;As connectivity progresses, the region will see competition among each other, and a place like Vijaynagar, owing it its spectacular natural beauty, will give tough competition to the rest of eastern Arunachal,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe CM said the OFAM has grown from initially meeting with skepticism to wide acceptance among the locals.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is growing bigger and better every year, and will benefit the local tribal communities economically,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nPema also said the state government would engage with JK Tyre to improve and develop rubber farming in the state, for the benefit of the rubber farmers.<br \/>\nHe flagged off the &#8216;JK Tyre Orange 4X4 Fury&#8217; off-roading event, and inaugurated the horticulture exhibition stall showcasing local produces such as oranges and kiwis from Lower Dibang Valley and Dibang Valley.<br \/>\nLocal MLA Gum Tayeng also spoke. (CMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism will be game changer for Arunachal: Pema DAMBUK, Dec 15: The 5th edition of the Orange Festival of Adventure and Music (OFAM) started on a colourful note here in Lower Dibang Valley district on Saturday. Addressing the inaugural event, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said tourism would be &#8220;a game changer for Arunachal, particularly for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54893","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\/54893","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=54893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}