{"id":134000,"date":"2020-08-07T02:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=134000"},"modified":"2020-08-07T02:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:34:57","slug":"ering-seeks-upgrading-of-disaster-risk-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/07\/ering-seeks-upgrading-of-disaster-risk-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ering seeks upgrading of disaster risk assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Aug 6:<\/strong> Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering has written to Prime Narendra Modi regarding the need for a holistic system upgrade for disaster risk assessment and dissemination of information to the public in Arunachal, especially with regard to the Siang river.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Siang (Brahmaputra) river has once again become a threat due to a landslide that occurred at Nien-Ch&#8217;ing-Tang-Ku-La Shan, which has created a natural dam in Yigong Tsangpo, a tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo in southern Tibet,&#8221; Ering said, and raised concern over the aftermath in case the dam bursts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He highlighted the risk of outburst floods from glacial lakes in the future as all the major upstream rivers of Arunachal have &#8220;glacial lakes of varying volumes and different flood risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We need automatic weather stations deployed at all border points where rivers come in, including the Subansiri, the Lohit, the Zemithang Chu and the Siang,&#8221; he said, and suggested that the central water commission collect and disseminate advanced flow rate data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ering also suggested that the SDMA, the NDMA, the NRSC and the state remote sensing centres &#8220;work together with competent people regularly to integrate earthquake alerts, precipitate data and radar data in a model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urging the PM to instruct the authorities concerned to look into the matter, Ering also requested that the Indian government ask its Chinese counterpart to &#8220;share the latest information about the river status, which has been stopped since the last two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Aug 6: Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering has written to Prime Narendra Modi regarding the need for a holistic system upgrade for disaster risk assessment and dissemination of information to the public in Arunachal, especially with regard to the Siang river. &#8220;The Siang (Brahmaputra) river has once again become a threat due to a [&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-134000","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\/134000","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=134000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}