{"id":80449,"date":"2019-10-02T01:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=80449"},"modified":"2019-10-02T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:06:44","slug":"cleanliness-drive-special-lecturesheld-to-mark-gandhi-jayanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/cleanliness-drive-special-lecturesheld-to-mark-gandhi-jayanti\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanliness drive, special lecturesheld to mark Gandhi Jayanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 1:<\/strong> Cleanliness drives and special lectures were held at various places on Tuesday to pay tribute to the father of the nation before his 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday.<br \/>\nA cleanliness drive was conducted at the campus and nearby areas of the Vivekanada Kendra College of Teacher Education in Nirjuli by the institute&#8217;s BEd trainees on Tuesday.<br \/>\nLater, addressing the trainees, Assistant Professor Jolly Anju highlighted the significance of Gandhian methods of education, such as basic education, learning by doing and the twin principles of Mahatma Gandhi- truth and non-violence.<br \/>\nPrincipal of the college, Dr Minakshi Goswami Sharma also spoke on the occasion.<br \/>\nIn Roing, a special lecture on the topic &#8216;Revisiting Gandhi: A Critical Study of His Life and its Contemporary Relevance&#8217; was organised by the Internal Quality Assessment Cell (IQAC), JominTayeng Government Model Degree College (JTGMDC) at the college on the same day.<br \/>\nHighlighting the objectives of introducing Ar\u00eate Lecture Series in the college, IQAC coordinator and Assistant Professor Apilang Apum said that the main objective of the Ar\u00eate Lecture Series is &#8220;to engage students and faculty members on many issues, which are of state, national and global importance and enrich the overall curriculum values.&#8221;<br \/>\nJTGMDC Assistant Professor Okiling Lego shared a brief history about the life of Mahatma Gandhi and focussed on the contribution made by Gandhi in the Indian freedom struggle, while the college&#8217;s principal Dr Monshi Tayeng laid special emphasis on the importance of keeping the environment and surroundings clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Oct 1: Cleanliness drives and special lectures were held at various places on Tuesday to pay tribute to the father of the nation before his 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday. A cleanliness drive was conducted at the campus and nearby areas of the Vivekanada Kendra College of Teacher Education in Nirjuli by the institute&#8217;s [&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-80449","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\/80449","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=80449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}