{"id":85478,"date":"2019-11-22T02:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=85478"},"modified":"2019-11-22T02:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:38:23","slug":"gov-highlights-arunachals-tourism-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/gov-highlights-arunachals-tourism-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov highlights Arunachal&#8217;s tourism potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Nov 21:<\/strong> Arunachal Governor BD Mishra met union MoS (Independent) for Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel, here on Thursday, and the two discussed promoting and harnessing Arunachal&#8217;s tourism potential.<br \/>\nThe governor, who is on an official tour of the national capital, highlighted the vast tourism potential of Arunachal, and impressed upon the minister &#8220;the pressing requirement of exploiting the vast tourism assets of the state, particularly ecotourism, adventure tourism and cultural tourism.&#8221;<br \/>\nMishra informed Patel that, along with the vibrant indigenous faiths, Arunachal has many important religious places mentioned in ancient religious scripts.<br \/>\nHe said that Parshuram Kund, in Lohit district, which is one of the important places of pilgrimage, &#8220;needs to be developed for a safe visit, bathing and comfortable stay of the pilgrims who come from different parts of the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe governor suggested &#8220;early finalization of the Parshuram Kund project to assist local youths to have self-employment opportunities and enhance the local economy of the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe informed that, with the opening of the Bhupen Hazarika bridge, &#8220;the Parshuram Kund project will immensely enhance tourism in eastern Arunachal Pradesh.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe MoS acknowledged the importance of tourism activities in Arunachal, and assured the governor to expedite the tourism projects in the state. (Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 21: Arunachal Governor BD Mishra met union MoS (Independent) for Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel, here on Thursday, and the two discussed promoting and harnessing Arunachal&#8217;s tourism potential. The governor, who is on an official tour of the national capital, highlighted the vast tourism potential of Arunachal, and impressed upon the minister &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85478","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\/85478","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=85478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}