{"id":76888,"date":"2019-08-26T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=76888"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:46:12","slug":"library-celebrates-12-years-of-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/26\/library-celebrates-12-years-of-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Library celebrates 12 years of establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TEZU, Aug 25:<\/strong> The Bamboosa library and the Lohit Youth Library Network (LYLN) celebrated 12 years of the library&#8217;s establishment in a function here in Lohit district on Sunday.<br \/>\nDuring the function, the Ranganatha Award for &#8216;meritorious library services and educational motivation to the youths of Wakro circle&#8217; was awarded to Kamlesh Raut, a teacher who is a volunteer of the APNE library based in Wakro.<br \/>\nThe Sister Nivedita Award for &#8216;outstanding support to Bamboosa library services and stimulating reading habits among youths of Tezu&#8217; was awarded to Assistant Engineer Jimu Mele.<br \/>\nBoth awards are sponsored by a patron of the library from Pune. Several other activists were also awarded during the function.<br \/>\nSpeaking on the occasion, the CALSOM&#8217;s Tezu block chairman Yalum Ama advised the youths to &#8220;work towards improving their lives by focusing on reading and realizing the value of books,&#8221; and to stay away from drugs.<br \/>\nHe also advised parents to desist from gifting motorcycles to minors, saying it has been &#8220;the cause of widespread loss of young lives in Arunachal.&#8221;<br \/>\nLYLN convenor Sokhep Kri shared his experience of more than three decades of close interactions with Arunachalee youths, while Indira Gandhi Government College&#8217;s Associate Professor, Dr Rajendra Babu, explained why &#8220;reading and possessing printed books are far more practical, prudent and healthy for the mind and eyes.&#8221;<br \/>\nLYLN coordinator S Mundayoor announced that a children&#8217;s book titled Picture Gandhi is coming out in five Arunachalee languages &#8211; Adi, Apatani, Miju Mishmi, Nyishi and Nocte &#8211; and in the Bodo language of Assam, on 2 October. The book is published by Chennai (Tamil Nadu)-based Tulika Books.<br \/>\nPoem recitations and skits presentations were part of the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEZU, Aug 25: The Bamboosa library and the Lohit Youth Library Network (LYLN) celebrated 12 years of the library&#8217;s establishment in a function here in Lohit district on Sunday. During the function, the Ranganatha Award for &#8216;meritorious library services and educational motivation to the youths of Wakro circle&#8217; was awarded to Kamlesh Raut, a teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76888","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\/76888","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=76888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}