{"id":300745,"date":"2018-07-24T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300745"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:08:36","slug":"pm-modi-gifts-200-cows-to-rweru-villagers-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-gifts-200-cows-to-rweru-villagers-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi gifts 200 cows to Rweru villagers in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300746 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows-611x420.jpg 611w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-cows.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0on Tuesday visited Rweru model village in Rwanda\u2019s eastern province and gifted 200 cows to villagers as a part of\u00a0Rwandan Government&#8217;s Girinka Programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The function to mark the handing over of cows was held at Rweru Model Village, in the presence of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi appreciated the Girinka Programme, and President Paul Kagame&#8217;s initiative in this regard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Girinka Programme was initiated by President Paul Kagame in the year 2006. Providing a dairy cow under the Girinka Programme to the villagers, transforms livelihoods, reconciles communities and improve agricultural productivity through the use of manure as fertilizers, which would lead to improve the soil quality and reduce erosion through the plantation of grass and trees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0on Tuesday visited Rweru model village in Rwanda\u2019s eastern province and gifted 200 cows to villagers as a part of\u00a0Rwandan Government&#8217;s Girinka Programme. The function to mark the handing over of cows was held at Rweru Model Village, in the presence of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.\u00a0 PM Modi appreciated the Girinka Programme, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3841,1277,3835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300747,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300745\/revisions\/300747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}