{"id":168363,"date":"2021-08-05T02:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168363"},"modified":"2021-08-05T02:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:22:56","slug":"residents-approach-dc-for-improving-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/05\/residents-approach-dc-for-improving-internet-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents approach DC for improving internet service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 4 Aug:<\/strong> Having failed to convince the telecom service providers to improve the internet services in their area, the residents of Mirbuk-Pekung, Diking and Napit villages under Bogong Banggo near here approached the East Siang district administration, seeking its intervention in the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The villagers attributed the poor internet services to lack of infrastructure (mobile towers) in their area. They alleged that the private mobile\/internet service providers have turned deaf ears to their pleas for installation of new mobile towers in their area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The residents of the three villages recently discussed the matter and also constituted a committee to pursue the matter afresh with the East Siang district administration. They submitted a representation to the DC on 2 August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are demanding installation of one mobile tower each in Mirbuk-Pekung and the high region of Napit village. They said that poor internet service in the area has badly affected online classes and examinations of the students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are cell phone towers in Mirmir Charali and Mirsam, which are 4 kms away from their villages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pekung and Diking villages have a population of over 4,000 each. There are also many educational institutions and religious centres in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prafulla Kaman ] PASIGHAT, 4 Aug: Having failed to convince the telecom service providers to improve the internet services in their area, the residents of Mirbuk-Pekung, Diking and Napit villages under Bogong Banggo near here approached the East Siang district administration, seeking its intervention in the matter. The villagers attributed the poor internet services [&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-168363","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\/168363","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=168363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}