{"id":136720,"date":"2020-09-08T01:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136720"},"modified":"2020-09-08T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:08:30","slug":"tcs-hopeful-nacho-abductees-will-be-brought-back-questions-poor-border-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/tcs-hopeful-nacho-abductees-will-be-brought-back-questions-poor-border-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS hopeful Nacho &#8216;abductees&#8217; will be brought back; questions poor border infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Karda Natam ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, Sep 7:<\/strong> Following the reported &#8216;abduction&#8217; of five persons from Nacho in Upper Subansiri district recently, Tagin Cultural Society (TCS) president Tabu Paktung on Monday said there is no proper demarcation of the Sino-India border in the area, &#8220;which is beyond the knowledge of innocent teenagers who went for hunting in the jungle and the PLA reportedly abducted them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TCS is in touch with the aggrieved families and army officials, and is hopeful that the government will bring the five youths back home, Paktung said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he expressed resentment over the poor infrastructure development in the area, despite its strategic importance. &#8220;The entire Upper Subansiri district is in one of the most pathetic conditions in the nation in terms of road communication,&#8221; Paktung said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the union and the state governments have been apprised many a time of the need for proper road connectivity, &#8220;especially for ferrying defence machinery during war-like situation,&#8221; but the government never paid attention to the grievance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Now, if a war-like situation erupts, how will the government transport the defence materials?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paktung said the Centre needs to &#8220;immediately construct a road connecting Assam and Upper Subansiri, from Mebi-Geko to Gerukhamukh, which is around 100 kms only and will hardly take three hours to reach Upper Subansiri from Assam if the highway is constructed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This will benefit the defence sector from the border security point of view,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paktung also appealed to the public to not hype up the report in the media but extend moral support to the government and the aggrieved families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Karda Natam ] DAPORIJO, Sep 7: Following the reported &#8216;abduction&#8217; of five persons from Nacho in Upper Subansiri district recently, Tagin Cultural Society (TCS) president Tabu Paktung on Monday said there is no proper demarcation of the Sino-India border in the area, &#8220;which is beyond the knowledge of innocent teenagers who went for hunting [&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-136720","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\/136720","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=136720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}