{"id":5509,"date":"2005-08-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/30\/2005-08-30-india-to-invest-in-elephant-village\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T12:00:00","slug":"2005-08-30-india-to-invest-in-elephant-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/30\/2005-08-30-india-to-invest-in-elephant-village\/","title":{"rendered":"India To Invest In Elephant Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\" http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=14&#038;click_id=420&#038;art_id=qw1124287020636T614\">www.iol.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, August 23, 2005: Elephants and their keepers in the northern Indian city of Jaipur are to have a new home soon in a &#8220;hathi gaon,&#8221; a village exclusively for the pachyderms, it was reported. Elephants in Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan state, are used to carry loads and ferry tourists to the city&#8217;s hilltop forts. They usually spend the night on the streets. The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has allotted 30 hectares of land in the capital&#8217;s suburbs to the Rajasthan Tourism department for the village, IANS news agency reported. The elephant village, which is expected to become a tourist attraction, will provide shelter to about 100 elephants and their mahouts, or keepers. The project will include a natural habitat shelter for elephants with an extensive plantation and a veterinary hospital. There will be residences for the mahouts and a small man-made pond for the elephants to bathe in. Tourist facilities will include a restaurants, an artefact manufacturing centre and a museum depicting Rajasthani culture and tradition.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.iol.co.za NEW DELHI, August 23, 2005: Elephants and their keepers in the northern Indian city of Jaipur are to have,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}