{"id":74209,"date":"2020-12-24T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74209"},"modified":"2020-12-24T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T10:07:47","slug":"island-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/island-development-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Development Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Home minister chairs sixth meeting of Island Development Agency<\/h2>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union home minister has chaired the sixth meeting of the Island Development Agency(IDA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the meeting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meeting reviewed the work progress of the programme \u201cHolistic Development of Islands\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Government has identified 16 islands in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and 10 in Lakshadweep for holistic development of Islands.<\/li>\n<li>The development plan focuses on the creation of jobs for the islanders through tourism promotion as well as export of seafood and coconut-based products made in the Islands.<\/li>\n<li>Further,this is the first time under the guidance of IDA,an initiative of sustainable development in the identified Islands within scientifically assessed carrying capacity has been taken-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About IDA:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Island Development Agency(IDA) was constituted in 2017 under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs to look into the holistic development of islands.<\/li>\n<li>Home Minister of India is its chairman and CEO of NITI Aayog acts as its convener.<\/li>\n<li>The other members of IDA include Secretary- Tourism, Tribal affairs, the Home Secretary, Secretary Ministry of Environment and Cabinet secretary.<\/li>\n<li>NITI Aayog has been mandated with the task to steer the holistic development of the islands in sustainable manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home minister chairs sixth meeting of Island Development Agency News:Union home minister has chaired the sixth meeting of the Island Development Agency(IDA). Facts: Key takeaways from the meeting: The meeting reviewed the work progress of the programme \u201cHolistic Development of Islands\u201d. Government has identified 16 islands in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and 10 in Lakshadweep&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/island-development-agency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Island Development Agency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":48,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74209","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}