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ITANAGAR, 8 May<\/strong>: Governor BD Mishra, in consultation with the state government, has designated retired major general Jarken Gamlin as the voluntary state coordinator to organize the ex-servicemen of the state in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n As the senior most among the ex-servicemen of Arunachal, Gamlin has been designated to coordinate the voluntary services of the ex-servicemen with local civil government officials and people’s representatives.<\/p>\n The governor exhorted all ex-servicemen of Arunachal to rise to the occasion, wherever they may be, to help the people. He expressed hope that the training, discipline and experience of the ex-servicemen would be “immensely beneficial to secure assistance for Covid-affected persons and managing essential services to the needy people in the time of the present crisis.”<\/p>\n The governor also advised the state government to involve ex-servicemen “and draw up roadmaps for them with an aim to prevent the spread of the virus, and to provide assistance and guidance to those needing it.”<\/p>\n He said that effective utilization of the available manpower of ex-servicemen in the state would help in achieving the twin purposes of containing the spread of coronavirus and helping the already afflicted populace.<\/p>\n He suggested to the ex-servicemen to assist the civil and the health administrators in converting villages or colonies into micro-containment zones, and to participate in Covid protection awareness campaigns locally. (Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 8 May: Governor BD Mishra, in consultation with the state government, has designated retired major general Jarken Gamlin as the voluntary state coordinator to organize the ex-servicemen of the state in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. As the senior most among the ex-servicemen of Arunachal, Gamlin has been designated to coordinate the voluntary […]<\/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-157906","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\/157906","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=157906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}