{"id":149370,"date":"2021-02-03T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=149370"},"modified":"2021-02-03T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:35:18","slug":"longo-gets-water-treatment-plant-lowang-appeals-people-to-use-water-judiciously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/longo-gets-water-treatment-plant-lowang-appeals-people-to-use-water-judiciously\/","title":{"rendered":"Longo gets water treatment plant, Lowang appeals people to use water judiciously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGO, 2 Feb:<\/strong>\u00a0 PHE &amp; WS minister Wangki Lowang on Tuesday, appealed for judicious use of water keeping in mind its value and importance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inaugurating a water treatment plant here in Tirap district, Lowang said his department will provide drinking water in every household under Jal Jeevan mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged the people of Longo and adjoining villages to take proper care of the water treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Appealing to the villagers to refrain from deforestation around water sources, Lowang, who also is the DoTCL minister, discouraged traditional shifting cultivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggested the villagers to grow cash crops and adopt scientific way of farming with the help of the departments concerned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a public memorandum, the minister assured replacing of old pipelines from the water source soon. &#8216;The demand for construction of a new building for Govt. Primary School and widening of the village link road would be taken up with the chief minister in due course of time,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Borduria-Bogapani MLA Wanglin Lowangdong commended PHE&amp;WS department for timely completion of the project. He said many development activities could not be completed in time due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the pandemic is not over yet, he advised the people to continue follow the health guidelines, such as maintaining recommended physical distance, wearing of masks etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lowangdong informed that the construction of NH-315A from Hukanjuri to Khonsa is being carried out in full-swing while, the works of TAH from Khonsa to Longding started from Tissa point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tirap DC Taro Mize said the office of the circle officer here will be inaugurated soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;The water treatment project was sanctioned in 2018 under the initiative of Borduria-Bogapani MLA Lowangdong and has been constructed under RIDF fund with an estimated cost of Rs. 450 lakh,&#8217; informed PHE&amp;WS Khonsa division EE Bamang Tasung. The project will supply water to Longo circle headquarters and adjoining villages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kapu Block ZPM Wiram Matey requested minister Lowang and MLA Lowangdong for a similar water supply project for the people of Khowathong and Howalam villages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tirap SP Kardak Riba, Longo CO Ripi Doni, HoDs, GBs, Chiefs, PRI and students leaders attended the programme. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGO, 2 Feb:\u00a0 PHE &amp; WS minister Wangki Lowang on Tuesday, appealed for judicious use of water keeping in mind its value and importance. Inaugurating a water treatment plant here in Tirap district, Lowang said his department will provide drinking water in every household under Jal Jeevan mission. He urged the people of Longo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149370","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=149370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}