{"id":76361,"date":"2019-08-21T01:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=76361"},"modified":"2019-08-21T01:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:25:51","slug":"speaker-visits-de-addiction-centre-in-aalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/speaker-visits-de-addiction-centre-in-aalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker visits de-addiction centre in Aalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AALO, Aug 20:<\/strong> Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Tuesday visited the de-addiction-cum-rehabilitation centre at Hiker Gumin here in West Siang district.<br \/>\nEstablished in 2014 by NGO Mother&#8217;s Vision, the centre conducts de-addiction and rehabilitation programmes for those who are addicted to drugs, alcohol and other narcotic substances.<br \/>\nTwenty-three persons are currently being treated at the centre.<br \/>\nSona lauded the centre&#8217;s staff for their yeoman services to needy people who are under the clutch of the drug menace.<br \/>\nDescribing drug abuse as &#8220;one of the most dangerous social menaces,&#8221; the speaker suggested to the NGO to focus on preventive measures, apart from carrying out de-addiction and rehabilitation programmes.<br \/>\n&#8220;Prevention is better than cure,&#8221; the speaker said, and urged the people to support such noble activities. He also announced to contribute fund to the centre, and to extend all possible assistance from his end.<br \/>\nInforming that the centre is being run &#8220;on a self-help basis, without any other source or help,&#8221; resource person Kennedy Bagra requested the speaker to see if any help could be offered by the state government.<br \/>\nMothers&#8217; Vision chairman Jumde Yomgam Gamlin highlighted the NGO&#8217;s activities and its &#8220;movement against drug abuse.&#8221;<br \/>\nSona also met the youths who are undergoing the &#8216;100 days de-addiction and rehabilitation programme&#8217; at the centre.<br \/>\nEarlier, in the morning, the speaker attended a public meeting at Hone village in Shi-Yomi district, where he assured to fulfill the commitments he had made during his election campaign.<br \/>\nStressing on accountability and transparency, Sona urged the youths of the district to help in maintaining the quality of work under various schemes and projects.<br \/>\nThe people of five villages jointly submitted a memorandum to the speaker, seeking construction of volleyball grounds in all the five villages. (PRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Aug 20: Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Tuesday visited the de-addiction-cum-rehabilitation centre at Hiker Gumin here in West Siang district. Established in 2014 by NGO Mother&#8217;s Vision, the centre conducts de-addiction and rehabilitation programmes for those who are addicted to drugs, alcohol and other narcotic substances. Twenty-three persons are currently being treated at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76361","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\/76361","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=76361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}