{"id":312985,"date":"2019-06-04T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312985"},"modified":"2019-06-04T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:22:10","slug":"union-minister-prakash-javadekar-to-start-campaign-to-spread-awareness-about-environment-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-prakash-javadekar-to-start-campaign-to-spread-awareness-about-environment-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Prakash Javadekar to start campaign to spread awareness about environment protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306934 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/prakash-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/prakash-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/prakash.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister for Information &amp; Broadcasting and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar is set to start a drive to promote awareness about environmental protection. He will plant a sapling at Prayavaran Bhawan Complex in New Delhi tomorrow on the occasion of World Environment Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In this endeavour, he will be joined by renowned cricketer Kapil Dev, famous actor Jackie Shroff and acclaimed folk singer Malini Awasthi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier today, Javadekar launched a people\u2019s campaign #SelfiewithSapling, urging all to join and plant a sapling and post the selfie with the sapling on social media. He stressed that \u2018Jan Bhagidari\u2019 is integral towards tackling the environmental issues and environment protection has to be a people\u2019s movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He will also plant a sapling in the premises of Films Division in Mumbai on June 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Top celebrities from the Film Industry are expected to attend the event in order to spread the message of sustainability and the significance of reducing carbon footprint.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Information &amp; Broadcasting and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar is set to start a drive to promote awareness about environmental protection. He will plant a sapling at Prayavaran Bhawan Complex in New Delhi tomorrow on the occasion of World Environment Day. In this endeavour, he will be joined by renowned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312985"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312986,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312985\/revisions\/312986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}