{"id":13318,"date":"2017-12-20T01:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=13318"},"modified":"2017-12-20T01:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:11:27","slug":"mps-express-concern-over-pollution-in-brahmaputra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/mps-express-concern-over-pollution-in-brahmaputra\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs express concern over pollution in Brahmaputra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NEW DELHI, Dec 19:<\/strong> Members in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday expressed concern over the contamination of the Brahmaputra river as they asked the government to take up the matter with China from where the river flows into India and inform Parliament about it.<br \/>\nParliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said the matter was of serious concern and assured the House that he will inform &#8220;the highest level in government&#8221; about it.<br \/>\nBhartruhari Mahtab (BJD) raised the issue of increased level of pollutants in the river, also known as Siang, which flows into Arunachal Pradesh from south Tibet in China before getting into Assam.<br \/>\nHe said some reports have blamed China for it and noted that the Arunachal Pradesh government has written to the Centre as its water was not fit for drinking.<br \/>\nHe asked the government to make public its discussion with China on the issue.<br \/>\nBijoya Chakravarty (BJP), who hails from Assam, also joined him and asked the government to take up the matter with China.<br \/>\nShe said a delegation, including her, had met Home Minister Rajnath Singh who had assured them that he would inform External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj about it. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 19: Members in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday expressed concern over the contamination of the Brahmaputra river as they asked the government to take up the matter with China from where the river flows into India and inform Parliament about it. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said the matter was of serious [&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-13318","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\/13318","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=13318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}