{"id":127151,"date":"2020-06-05T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=127151"},"modified":"2020-06-05T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:06:10","slug":"mechuka-aalo-road-snapped-speaker-writes-to-bro-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/05\/mechuka-aalo-road-snapped-speaker-writes-to-bro-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechuka-Aalo road snapped; speaker writes to BRO CE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 4:<\/strong> Surface communication between Shi-Yomi and West Siang districts reportedly snapped on Wednesday night after the washing away of an RCC bridge near Yapik village on the Aalo-Mechuka road, in Shi-Yomi district.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mechuka-Aalo-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127155 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mechuka-Aalo-road.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mechuka-Aalo-road.jpg 209w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mechuka-Aalo-road-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>According to sources, a rain-triggered flashflood completely washed away the Sikam Sibu bridge, disrupting surface communication between the two districts.<br \/>\nIt is said that transportation of people and essential commodities to remote Shi-Yomi would be badly affected as it is likely to take days to restore the bridge. Commuters travelling from Mechuka to Aalo and vice versa were also reportedly left stranded.<br \/>\nExpressing serious concern over the incident, Assembly Speaker Pasang D Sona on Thursday urged the Border Roads Organization (BRO) to restore the bridge on a war footing.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the BRO chief engineer in Pasighat (East Siang), the speaker said the Aalo-Mechuka road &#8220;is the key and strategic road for movement of people, transportation of essential commodities, life-saving drugs, construction materials, and movement of defence personnel in the entire Shi-Yomi district.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe added that, owing to the inclement weather, supply of essential items and evacuation of emergency patients through sorties would also not be possible.<br \/>\n&#8220;The bridge is required to be constructed on a war footing to restore the connectivity and to mitigate the problems,&#8221; Sona said, and urged the BRO CE to take immediate action to restore the connectivity in order to facilitate easy movement of men and materials, &#8220;and to tackle emergency medical situations, including Covid-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 4: Surface communication between Shi-Yomi and West Siang districts reportedly snapped on Wednesday night after the washing away of an RCC bridge near Yapik village on the Aalo-Mechuka road, in Shi-Yomi district. According to sources, a rain-triggered flashflood completely washed away the Sikam Sibu bridge, disrupting surface communication between the two districts. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}