{"id":34930,"date":"2017-11-21T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=34930"},"modified":"2017-11-21T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:56:09","slug":"second-meeting-island-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/second-meeting-island-development-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Second meeting of Island Development Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Where was the second meeting of the Island Development Agency held recently? <\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Lakshadweep<br \/>\n(b) Andaman &amp; Nicobar<br \/>\n(c) New Delhi<br \/>\n(d) Puducherry<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On November 8, 2017, the second meeting of the island development agency under the chairmanship of Home Minister Rajnath Singh was held in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The Island Development Agency reviewed the concept development plans and detailed master plans for holistic development of 09 islands.<\/li>\n<li>These 9 islands includes four in A&amp;N Islands i.e. Smith, Ross, Long, Avis and five in Lakshadweep i.e. Minicoy, Bangaram, Thinnakara, Cheriyam, Suheli.<\/li>\n<li>The project being steered by NITI Aayog aims at promoting and implementing development based on sustainable approach to building a thriving maritime economy of the project islands.<\/li>\n<li>During the meeting, it was decided that the Naval air station at Shibpur near Diglipur in northern Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands would be co-used as Joint User Airport.<\/li>\n<li>In the meeting, it was also decided to develop a PPP package including a airport (Joint User Airport) at Minicoy Island, to unlock the tourism potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173317<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/on-the-cards-new-airport-at-lakshadweep-to-promote-tourism-tuna-fishing-industry\/story-GEBE174pPBaoCQ150sp6jP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/on-the-cards-new-airport-at-lakshadweep-to-promote-tourism-tuna-fishing-industry\/story-GEBE174pPBaoCQ150sp6jP.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Where was the second meeting of the Island Development Agency held recently? (a) Lakshadweep (b) Andaman &amp; Nicobar (c) New Delhi (d) Puducherry Answer: (c) Related Facts: On November 8, 2017, the second meeting of the island development agency under the chairmanship of Home Minister Rajnath Singh was held in New Delhi. The Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-34930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","tag-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}