{"id":71863,"date":"2019-07-09T04:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=71863"},"modified":"2019-07-09T04:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:36:59","slug":"ngos-organise-cleanliness-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/ngos-organise-cleanliness-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs organise cleanliness drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>BODAK, Jul 8:<\/strong> Braving the downpour, members of NGO AYANG, along with volunteers from the Make Arunachal Green, Incredible and Clean (MAGIC) Club, the NSS, and the Adiland &amp; Upright People Organization, on Monday carried out a cleanliness drive at &#8216;Pongging View&#8217;, near Bodak, in East Siang district.<br \/>\n&#8216;Pongging View&#8217; is much frequented by tourists. The drive was an initiative of AYANG, which is known for its yeomen service in blood donation. Monday&#8217;s drive was an attempt at creating awareness on the importance of hygiene, beautification and cleanliness, and safe disposal of garbage.<br \/>\nThe volunteers also cleaned some parts of the Raneghat area on their way back to district HQ Pasighat.<br \/>\nNationally acclaimed blood donor and founder chairman of AYANG, Aini Taloh, expressed gratitude to the participants.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have been taught since childhood that cleanliness not only brings prosperity in our lives but also keeps us away from all kinds of diseases,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nHowever, Taloh expressed regret that even after being educated &#8220;people throw litter openly, without understanding the harms of unhygienic conditions.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I want my next generation to breathe in clean and hygienic environment by taking up cleanliness programmes,&#8221; she said, encouraging the ideology of a healthy and clean lifestyle. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BODAK, Jul 8: Braving the downpour, members of NGO AYANG, along with volunteers from the Make Arunachal Green, Incredible and Clean (MAGIC) Club, the NSS, and the Adiland &amp; Upright People Organization, on Monday carried out a cleanliness drive at &#8216;Pongging View&#8217;, near Bodak, in East Siang district. &#8216;Pongging View&#8217; is much frequented by tourists. [&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-71863","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\/71863","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=71863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}