{"id":13655,"date":"2017-12-23T01:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2017-12-23T01:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:11:03","slug":"apspcb-collects-siang-water-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/apspcb-collects-siang-water-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"APSPCB collects Siang water samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 22:<\/strong> Though late, the Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (APSPCB) has collected water samples from the polluted Siang river in East Siang district.<br \/>\nAPSPCB Chairman Techi Tagi Tara, accompanied by a team of scientists and engineers, on Thursday visited Pasighat and collected water samples, which have been sent to Guwahati for testing.<br \/>\nThe testing will be conducted by a laboratory accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories.<br \/>\nTara also met the East Siang deputy commissioner and discussed the likely reasons behind the contamination of the Siang, and other pollution-related issues.<br \/>\nHe urged the DC to direct the owners of industries and factories in the district to obtain the APSPCB&#8217;s consent before setting up industries, &#8220;so that the prescribed environmental norms followed by those industries or factories can be monitored properly.&#8221;<br \/>\nTara informed the DC that several cases relating to non-compliance of environmental guidelines by various industries and factories are still pending in the court of the Kolkata-based eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 22: Though late, the Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (APSPCB) has collected water samples from the polluted Siang river in East Siang district. APSPCB Chairman Techi Tagi Tara, accompanied by a team of scientists and engineers, on Thursday visited Pasighat and collected water samples, which have been sent to Guwahati for testing. [&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-13655","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\/13655","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=13655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}