{"id":140851,"date":"2020-10-30T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=140851"},"modified":"2020-10-30T01:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:53:29","slug":"committee-seeks-inquiry-into-unauthorized-earth-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/committee-seeks-inquiry-into-unauthorized-earth-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee seeks inquiry into unauthorized earth-cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LEKHI, Oct 29:<\/strong> The Lekhi Panchayat Interstate Bus Terminal Transport Welfare Committee (LPISBTTWC) has claimed that unauthorized earth-cutting in &#8220;Upper Lekhi village (mountain site)&#8221; by some unknown group is causing problems in the downstream area, and sought an inquiry by the administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a letter to the ICR deputy commissioner, the committee informed that the unauthorized earth-cutting is piling up debris in the area and also led to the collapse of the boundary wall of the interstate bus terminal (ISBT) complex &#8220;by the flooding of the Jully Nallah.&#8221; It also said that this has caused problems for the residents of Lekhi-III Colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The rampant earth-cutting and subsequent collapse of the ISBT boundary wall due to the flooding of the Jully Nallah has resulted in the loss of private property worth lakhs. The women&#8217;s college building and the National Institute of Technology hostel building have also started to erode. Private residences in Lekhi-III Colony and the link road have also been damaged,&#8221; it informed, and requested the administration to take immediate action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The LPISBTTWC has sought proper inquiry by the administration into the unauthorized earth-cutting; halt on the earth-cutting activity till a CC drainage is constructed in the ISBT complex and Lekhi-III Colony; and compensation for all those who have lost or had their property damaged in the downstream area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said that &#8220;the landowner should create a proper retaining wall to dump debris before earth-cutting, if the landowner gets permission from the authority concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEKHI, Oct 29: The Lekhi Panchayat Interstate Bus Terminal Transport Welfare Committee (LPISBTTWC) has claimed that unauthorized earth-cutting in &#8220;Upper Lekhi village (mountain site)&#8221; by some unknown group is causing problems in the downstream area, and sought an inquiry by the administration. In a letter to the ICR deputy commissioner, the committee informed that the [&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-140851","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\/140851","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=140851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}