{"id":70944,"date":"2019-06-29T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=70944"},"modified":"2019-06-29T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:17:47","slug":"mishra-visits-owa-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/29\/mishra-visits-owa-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Mishra visits OWA centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NAHARLAGUN, Jun 28:<\/strong> Governor BD Mishra along with his wife Neelam Misra and SJETA Commissioner Gamli Padu visited the Oju Welfare Association&#8217;s (OWA) centre here on Friday.<br \/>\nThey toured the OWA complex and visited its home for children rescued from child labour, child abuse, etc, the specialized adoption agency, the short-stay home for women in difficult circumstances, the shelter for survivors of domestic violence, child marriage and forced marriage, the Women Helpline 181 centre sponsored by the union women &amp; child development ministry, and the free legal aid clinic.<br \/>\nThey also visited the OWA&#8217;s handloom training-cum-production centre, the tailoring section, the loin loom weaving centre, the vocational training centre, and the memorial museum to the OWA&#8217;s founder chairperson and Padmashree awardee, Binny Yanga.<br \/>\nThe governor and his wife interacted with the inmates of the centre.<br \/>\nMishra described OWA as &#8220;a great philanthropic institution which is admirably living up to its motto, &#8216;Service to humanity&#8217;.&#8221;<br \/>\nLauding the association&#8217;s efforts, he said it is commendably discharging its responsibilities towards is inmates, including special children, in spite of limitation of resources.<br \/>\nHe advised the inmates to imbibe skill and capability to become self-supporting, and to contribute to societal progress. The governor urged the women inmates who endured domestic violence, abandonment and other forms of brutality to &#8220;try to shed their past and live in hope and harmony with themselves.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe governor said he would approach the state and the union governments for providing support to the institute and its inmates.<br \/>\nEarlier, OWA chairperson Ratan Anya briefed the visiting dignitaries on the services provided by the association, and the challenges it faces.<br \/>\nHighlighting the resource scarcity at the centre, she submitted a four-point memorandum to the governor. (Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Jun 28: Governor BD Mishra along with his wife Neelam Misra and SJETA Commissioner Gamli Padu visited the Oju Welfare Association&#8217;s (OWA) centre here on Friday. They toured the OWA complex and visited its home for children rescued from child labour, child abuse, etc, the specialized adoption agency, the short-stay home for women 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-70944","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\/70944","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=70944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}