{"id":138577,"date":"2020-10-02T00:59:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=138577"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:29:42","slug":"forum-seeks-free-compulsory-rats-for-indigenous-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/02\/forum-seeks-free-compulsory-rats-for-indigenous-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum seeks free, compulsory RATs for indigenous citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 1:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Covid-19 Affected Forum has sought free and compulsory rapid antigen tests (RAT) for &#8220;indigenous citizens of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing reporters at the press club here on Thursday, the forum&#8217;s chairman Tai Talley said that the government should also consider &#8220;free distribution of masks and sanitizers, at least in the market areas of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Claiming that there have been discrepancies in the procurement of hospital equipment under the NESIDS in 10 district hospitals to fight Covid-19, the forum sought &#8220;recalling\/cancelling the recent illegal NIT called through a self-established online system by the state government within stipulated time and re-conduct the NIT call through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Challenging the validity of the re-tender notice, where &#8220;the tender has been illegally floated without complying with the mandatory tender process and deliberately not following the GeM,&#8221; the forum has submitted a writ petition before the Itanagar bench of the Gauhati High Court, so as to prevent the release of any payment to any contractor during the pendency of the writ petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Oct 1: The All Arunachal Covid-19 Affected Forum has sought free and compulsory rapid antigen tests (RAT) for &#8220;indigenous citizens of the state.&#8221; Addressing reporters at the press club here on Thursday, the forum&#8217;s chairman Tai Talley said that the government should also consider &#8220;free distribution of masks and sanitizers, at least [&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-138577","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\/138577","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=138577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}