{"id":7740,"date":"2016-08-28T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2016-08-28T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:01:42","slug":"clay-ganeshas-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/clay-ganeshas-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Ganeshas please\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing concern over the issue of rising pollution, Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=Narendra\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type%3Dnews%26q%3DNarendra&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1472459890774000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFrKYPIHPI_JKlnosBPwk7IakNc0Q\">Narendra\u00a0<\/a>Modi \u00a0appealed to the nation to celebrate Ganesh Utsav and Durga Puja in an eco-friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the nation in the 23rd edition of his &#8216;Mann Ki Baat&#8217; programme, Prime Minister Modi said, &#8220;Lot of people are writing about Ganesh Chaturthi and Durga Puja vis-a-vis the environment, showing their concern over pollution. Why should we not go back to our tradition of using clay for making idols? It will help the environment as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Prime Minister Modi said the Ganesh idols must be made of clay and not Plaster of Paris.&#8221;Clay is eco-friendly, unlike Plaster of Paris, and we must go back to clay for sculpting idols of Ganesh and Durga,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<p>Ganesh Utsav or Chaturthi will be celebrated in the first week of September, while Durga Puja will be observed from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2019827140\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 7 to 11<\/span><\/span> this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing concern over the issue of rising pollution, Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi \u00a0appealed to the nation to celebrate Ganesh Utsav and Durga Puja in an eco-friendly way. Addressing the nation in the 23rd edition of his &#8216;Mann Ki Baat&#8217; programme, Prime Minister Modi said, &#8220;Lot of people are writing about Ganesh Chaturthi and Durga Puja vis-a-vis the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3257,3259,3256,3258,318],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-durga-puja","tag-ganesh-idols","tag-ganesh-utsav","tag-mann-ki-baat","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}