{"id":80031,"date":"2019-09-28T00:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=80031"},"modified":"2019-09-28T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:49:06","slug":"economic-growth-and-environment-sustainability-should-go-hand-in-hand-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/28\/economic-growth-and-environment-sustainability-should-go-hand-in-hand-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic growth and environment sustainability should go hand-in-hand: CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 27:<\/strong> &#8220;Conservation should not only mean protecting forests and wildlife but also take into account improving the lives of the people living around them,&#8221; Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on Friday.<br \/>\nAddressing a meeting with senior officers of the forest department here, Khandu asked the department to &#8220;shed its image of a stumbling block to development,&#8221; and advised it to &#8220;come up with innovative solutions to strike a balance between environment sustainability and economic growth.&#8221;<br \/>\nUrging the department to sensitize the people towards conservation, he suggested that conservation-related tourism festivals in the state be taken up by the forest department. &#8220;This,&#8221; he said, &#8220;will be effective in spreading the message of conservation.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe CM also asked the department to ensure on-time submission of proposals for centrally-sponsored afforestation schemes from the districts.<br \/>\n&#8220;This year, funds for CAMPA have been distributed all over the state, unlike earlier times when such funds were limited only to certain areas and on avenue plantation,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nKhandu urged the department to move towards transparency, accountability and efficiency, lamenting that it has &#8220;lost its charm by being less active.&#8221;<br \/>\nAlso noting that despite the central funding for recruitment of a special tiger protection force in the state, the forest department has not been able to utilize the opportunity, he said the matter should be taken up urgently. (CMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 27: &#8220;Conservation should not only mean protecting forests and wildlife but also take into account improving the lives of the people living around them,&#8221; Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on Friday. Addressing a meeting with senior officers of the forest department here, Khandu asked the department to &#8220;shed its image of a stumbling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80031","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\/80031","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=80031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}