{"id":261441,"date":"2023-09-23T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261441"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:36:04","slug":"indias-first-lighthouse-festival-begins-in-goa-from-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-lighthouse-festival-begins-in-goa-from-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival begins in Goa from Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival begins in Goa from Tomorrow<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 23rd September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways is going to inaugurate India\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival from the Fort Aguada Lighthouse in Panjim, Goa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a Lighthouse?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>India\u2019s first ever Lighthouse Festival?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>To be held at: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fort Aguada in Goa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would be a three day event in carnival style with local artists, dance troupes, food and culinary stalls, music concerts and similar activities to attract common people to Lighthouses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Lighthouse<\/b><b> Heritage Tourism campaign?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways is planning <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to develop lighthouses into tourist hubs across the country under the \u2018Lighthouse Heritage Tourism\u2019 campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign will be undertaken under the Public\u2013Private Partnership(PPP) model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the campaign, old lighthouses will be given a new life and 75 lighthouses across the country will be developed into tourist hubs and developed on the lines of those in Europe and America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival begins in Goa from Tomorrow\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 23rd September 2023 What is the News? The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways is going to inaugurate India\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival from the Fort Aguada Lighthouse in Panjim, Goa. What is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-lighthouse-festival-begins-in-goa-from-tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s First Lighthouse Festival begins in Goa from Tomorrow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-261441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}