{"id":88976,"date":"2019-12-28T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88976"},"modified":"2019-12-28T00:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:29:17","slug":"course-in-paragliding-conducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/28\/course-in-paragliding-conducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Course in paragliding conducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Paragliding to be made part of KRF<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LUMDUNG, Dec 27:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Society for Education &amp; Development (APSED), with support from the tourism department, organised a 10-day &#8216;basic-cum-refresher course&#8217; in paragliding here in East Kameng district.<br \/>\nThe course was conducted to promote adventure tourism, especially paragliding, in the Itanagar-Seppa and the Itanagar-Ziro tourist circuits, said APSED president Vijay Sonam.<br \/>\n&#8220;While the Itanagar-Seppa tourist circuit is the least visited tourist destination, there is no adventure tourism activities in the Itanagar-Ziro circuit, though it is a favourite destination of tourists,&#8221; Sonam, who is also the president of the Paragliding Association of Arunachal (PAA), said.<br \/>\nHe said the paragliding sites in Yazali, in Lower Subansiri district, and Lumdung in Papu Valley of East Kameng, are being developed to promote adventure tourism.<br \/>\nSonam said local youths and entrepreneurs can take up paragliding commercially. &#8220;Paragliding can generate employment for the youths,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe informed that five girls and six boys underwent the course here from 15 December, while seven boys and a girl have been sent to Bir Billing, in Himachal Pradesh, for undergoing advanced course to hone their flying skills.<br \/>\nEast Kameng Social Welfare &amp; Cultural Organization chairman Dahey Sangno commended Sonam and the PAA for putting Lumdung on the paragliding map.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is heartening to know that Arunachal, under his (Sonam) leadership, has the most number of female pilots in the country,&#8221; Sangno said.<br \/>\nHe expressed hope that paragliding would promote tourism and generate employment opportunity for the youths of East Kameng.<br \/>\n&#8220;The EKSWCO is working hard to unearth the full potentials of East Kameng, and paragliding is one which has huge potential to make the district a hub of adventure tourism,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nSonam and Sangno agreed to make paragliding a major event of the Kameng River Festival (KRF), to be organised in February, 2020, coinciding with the Nyokum Yullo celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paragliding to be made part of KRF LUMDUNG, Dec 27: The Arunachal Pradesh Society for Education &amp; Development (APSED), with support from the tourism department, organised a 10-day &#8216;basic-cum-refresher course&#8217; in paragliding here in East Kameng district. The course was conducted to promote adventure tourism, especially paragliding, in the Itanagar-Seppa and the Itanagar-Ziro tourist circuits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88976","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\/88976","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=88976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}