{"id":207733,"date":"2020-01-13T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/01\/13\/with-pension-for-acid-attack-survivors-chhapaak-serves-purpose\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:36:27","slug":"with-pension-for-acid-attack-survivors-chhapaak-serves-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/13\/with-pension-for-acid-attack-survivors-chhapaak-serves-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"With pension for acid attack survivors; \u2018Chhapaak\u2019 serves \u2018purpose\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar is over-the-moon with her latest directorial &ldquo;Chhapaak&rdquo; as she says the movie has succeeded to serve its &ldquo;purpose&rdquo; after Uttarakhand announced pension for acid attack survivors in the state following the release.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, she took to Twitter, where she shared a news headline, which read: &ldquo;Uttarakhand announces pension for acid attack survivors in state after release of &lsquo;Chhapaak&rsquo;&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Meghna wrote: &ldquo;PURPOSE.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The newindianexpress.com on Saturday had reported that &ldquo;as of now, there are 10-11 acid attack survivors living in the state of Uttarkhand&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Rekha Arya, the State Women and Child Welfare Minister, while announcing the scheme said that the government was planning to start a pension scheme under which Rs 5,000-6,000 will be provided every month to the survivors so that they can live a life with dignity. &ldquo;We will be bringing the proposal in the cabinet to get it approved to further implement the scheme. The idea is to support the brave women in achieving their dreams,&rdquo; Arya was quoted as saying. &ldquo;Chhapaak&rdquo;, starring Deepika Padukone is based on the life of Laxmi Agarwal, an acid attack survivor. The film was released on January 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;(IANS)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With pension for acid attack survivors; \u2018Chhapaak\u2019 serves \u2018purpose\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}