{"id":75691,"date":"2019-08-14T02:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=75691"},"modified":"2019-08-14T02:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:39:20","slug":"dc-calls-for-declaring-tobacco-free-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/dc-calls-for-declaring-tobacco-free-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"DC calls for declaring tobacco-free zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>AALO, Aug 13:<\/strong> West Siang DC Swetika Sachan on Tuesday instructed the tax &amp; excise department to &#8220;cancel all ghumtis operating in different locations, indulging in sale of tobacco products.&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaking during a meeting of the district tobacco control cell (DTCC), the enforcement squad and HoDs to discuss steps to create tobacco-free zones in schools, hospitals and government offices, the DC stressed the need for conducting awareness campaigns and &#8220;putting up hoardings declaring ban on tobacco products in the local dialects in all locations.&#8221;<br \/>\nDMO Dr Moli Riba called for evolving a coordinating mechanism to implement the rule in all government institutions in the district through enforcement squads and flying squads.<br \/>\nDr J Kato made a PowerPoint presentation on the campaigns under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act carried out so far in the district, and on the declaration of tobacco-free zones.<br \/>\nDTCC psychologist Miti Gammeng spoke on the role of civil society in checking the use of tobacco products in public places.<br \/>\nYomcha, Darak and the general hospital and the town middle school here have already been declared tobacco-free zones. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Aug 13: West Siang DC Swetika Sachan on Tuesday instructed the tax &amp; excise department to &#8220;cancel all ghumtis operating in different locations, indulging in sale of tobacco products.&#8221; Speaking during a meeting of the district tobacco control cell (DTCC), the enforcement squad and HoDs to discuss steps to create tobacco-free zones in schools, [&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-75691","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\/75691","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=75691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}