{"id":1619,"date":"2020-01-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/15\/president-calls-for-more-investment-in-children\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:55:00","slug":"president-calls-for-more-investment-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/15\/president-calls-for-more-investment-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"President calls for more investment in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bidya Devi Bhandari has called on the government and bodies concerned to scale up investment in children who are the responsible citizen of the future.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the &#8216;President with Children&#8217; programme held at the Rastrapati Bhawan, Shital Niwas on the occasion of Maghe Sankranti today, the Head-of-the-State urged for increasing investment in children&#8217;s education, health and other aspects of their life, expressing hope the parliament and government would pay a special attention if they are deprived of proper care and protection.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was happy to spend time with children and give them guardianship at the moment on the occasion of Makar Sankranti.<\/p>\n<p>The children from the Nepal Bal Sangathan (Nepal Children&#8217;s Organisation) gave their musical performance on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a group of girl students from the Padmakanya Multiple Campus gave a special dance performance. Children were offered special Maghi delicacies by the President&#8217;s Office, Shital Niwas.<\/p>\n<p>The culture of a political gathering and tea reception at the Shital Niwas on the occasion of Maghi has been replaced by the &#8216;President with Children&#8217; programme for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The programme aims to draw the State&#8217;s attention to the welfare of children, it is said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bidya Devi Bhandari has called on the government and bodies concerned to scale up investment in children who are the responsible citizen of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[332,330],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}