{"id":90556,"date":"2020-01-16T00:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90556"},"modified":"2020-01-16T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:06:28","slug":"festivals-should-not-be-confined-to-merry-making-but-also-promote-tourism-bagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/festivals-should-not-be-confined-to-merry-making-but-also-promote-tourism-bagra\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivals should not be confined to merry-making but also promote tourism: Bagra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AALO, Jan 15:<\/strong> State Minister for Industries &amp; Textile, Tumke Bagra said that &#8220;festivals should not be confined to fun and merry-making but should be promotional in nature to attract domestic and foreign tourism.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said this during a general review meeting of the Yomgo River Festival (YRF) 2020 held under the chairmanship of West Siang Deputy Commissioner Swetika Sachan at the DC&#8217;s conference hall here in the district on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe festival is scheduled to be held from 7 to 9 February next.<br \/>\nThe minister also asked the district administration and police to contain all law and order problems during the three-day long festival.<br \/>\nAalo East MLA Kento Jini lauded the presentations given by the event managers of the festival and stressed on promotion of<br \/>\ntraditional art, culture, handicrafts and traditional sports, like bamboo rafting.<br \/>\nChairman of the steering committee, Abhinav Kumar dwelt on preparatory process of the festival, while the two selected event managers of the festival &#8211; the Wild Flower Production and Orchids, made detailed Power Point presentations on site plan; Yomgo accord on conservation and cleaning of Siyom River and its tributaries; movie screening and promotional activities, among other activities. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Jan 15: State Minister for Industries &amp; Textile, Tumke Bagra said that &#8220;festivals should not be confined to fun and merry-making but should be promotional in nature to attract domestic and foreign tourism.&#8221; He said this during a general review meeting of the Yomgo River Festival (YRF) 2020 held under the chairmanship of West [&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-90556","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\/90556","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=90556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}