{"id":147242,"date":"2021-01-11T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=147242"},"modified":"2021-01-11T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:55:40","slug":"org-seeks-cms-intervention-for-early-clearance-of-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/org-seeks-cms-intervention-for-early-clearance-of-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Org seeks CM&#8217;s intervention for early clearance of road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 10 Jan:<\/strong> The All Tagin Youth Organization (ATYO) has submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Pema Khandu, seeking his intervention for early clearance of the proposed two-lane highway from Mebi &#8211; Gekho in Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district to Assam&#8217;s Gerukamukh\/Gogamukh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ATYO informed that the proposed national highway project has been awaiting formal clearance since 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the project, once cleared, would not only reduce the distance between Upper Subansiri and the state capital but also facilitate smooth movement of troops to the sensitive border areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project, which was proposed way back in 1999, got the cabinet approval during the Nabam Tuki-led government in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister for MoRTH Nitin Gadkari had cleared the project in principle during his maiden visit to Itanagar on 13 January, 2017, informed the organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organization also informed that a consulting firm\/agency was engaged to carry out feasibility study and prepare a detailed project report in 2018, but the firm\/agency has been stopped from carrying out their works by the state government, which it said is causing delay in the formal declaration of the project by the PMO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the 78-km proposed road project has been a long-pending demand of the people of Upper Subansiri, the organization said any failure on part of the government in getting formal clearance of the project within a month would compel the organization to launch a series of democratic movements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposed highway will bring down the distance between Daporijo, the district headquarters of Upper Subansiri, and Itanagar to 197 kms, whereas the existing Daporijo-Itanagar road via Ziro is 335 km and the route via Pohumara-Likabali-Bam is 375 km, the organization informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 10 Jan: The All Tagin Youth Organization (ATYO) has submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Pema Khandu, seeking his intervention for early clearance of the proposed two-lane highway from Mebi &#8211; Gekho in Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district to Assam&#8217;s Gerukamukh\/Gogamukh. The ATYO informed that the proposed national highway project has been awaiting formal [&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-147242","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\/147242","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=147242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}