{"id":174389,"date":"2021-10-18T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174389"},"modified":"2021-10-18T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:20:34","slug":"union-holds-construction-company-contractor-responsible-for-drowning-of-children-in-longo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/18\/union-holds-construction-company-contractor-responsible-for-drowning-of-children-in-longo\/","title":{"rendered":"Union holds construction company, contractor responsible for drowning of children in Longo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 17 Oct:<\/strong> The Wancho Students&#8217; Union (WSU) said that the highway construction company and the contractor concerned are solely responsible for the tragic death of three children in Longo village in Tirap district on 9 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The children died after falling into a deep, flooded pit dug by SKS Infra Projects Ltd for the construction of a culvert in the village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WSU alleged that the incident occurred due to &#8220;utter negligence and irresponsibility on the part of the executing agency and the contractor concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the incident could have been avoided had proper safety precautions been taken, considering that the road passes through a populated residential area\/village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They had been carrying out the construction works irresponsibly by flouting the safety norms\/protocols of the National Highways Authority of India and the agreement, which resulted in the loss of three innocent lives,&#8221; the union alleged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the WSU also visited the victims&#8217; families and consoled them. They requested the authorities concerned to provide compensation to the affected families as per the government norms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the union demanded that the competent authority take immediate action against the executing company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 17 Oct: The Wancho Students&#8217; Union (WSU) said that the highway construction company and the contractor concerned are solely responsible for the tragic death of three children in Longo village in Tirap district on 9 October. The children died after falling into a deep, flooded pit dug by SKS Infra Projects Ltd for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174389","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\/174389","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=174389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}