{"id":136210,"date":"2020-09-03T01:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136210"},"modified":"2020-09-03T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:48:13","slug":"central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-e-siang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-e-siang\/","title":{"rendered":"Central team visits flood-affected areas in E\/Siang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-ESiang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136223 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-ESiang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-ESiang.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Central-team-visits-flood-affected-areas-in-ESiang-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a>PASIGHAT, Sep 2:<\/strong> The seven-member inter-ministerial central team (IMCT) headed by Home Ministry Joint Secretary (FFR) KB Singh on Wednesday visited various flood-affected areas in East Siang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team, accompanied by officers from the state&#8217;s disaster management department, inspected Yagrung circle, which was ravaged by the Poglek Korong river during the recent flood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the IMCT inspected Komlighat on the right bank of the Siang river as well as in Pasighat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">East Siang DC Kinny Singh briefed the central team on the damages to water and power supplies, wet rice fields, roads, etc, caused by the Poglek river.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC and WRD EE Gonong Pertin further apprised the team of the need to strengthen flood protection measures and replace the 20-year-old anti-erosion boulder spurs as erosion and flooding by the Siang and the Sibo-Korong rivers threaten the low-lying areas of Pasighat township during monsoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is pertinent to mention that, during a meeting with the IMCT, Disaster Management Secretary Dani Salu said that the state suffered heavy losses, including human lives, because of floods caused by unprecedented rainfall this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central team was accompanied by Salu, Disaster Management Director Atul Tayeng, Assistant Director Nob Tsering, DDMO Genden Tsomu, and departmental engineers. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Sep 2: The seven-member inter-ministerial central team (IMCT) headed by Home Ministry Joint Secretary (FFR) KB Singh on Wednesday visited various flood-affected areas in East Siang district. The team, accompanied by officers from the state&#8217;s disaster management department, inspected Yagrung circle, which was ravaged by the Poglek Korong river during the recent flood. Later, [&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-136210","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\/136210","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=136210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}