{"id":186691,"date":"2022-03-20T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=186691"},"modified":"2022-03-20T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:41:17","slug":"tug-of-war-between-locals-and-assam-forest-officials-continues-in-phinbiro-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/03\/20\/tug-of-war-between-locals-and-assam-forest-officials-continues-in-phinbiro-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Tug-of-war between locals and Assam forest officials continues in Phinbiro-I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Junroi Mamai ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PHINBIRO-I, 19 Mar:<\/strong> The residents of Phinbiro-I village in Changlang district were on 15 March asked to remove a kutcha waiting shed they had constructed within their village area by forest officials of the Assam government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shed has been constructed by the locals to serve as a resting place for passersby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Changlang SP Mihin Gambo on Saturday informed that the matter was amicably resolved between the locals and the forest officials of Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The said area is disputed one. Assam government claims the area comes under reserve forest while the locals claim otherwise,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The area has witnessed similar incidents on many occasions. On 10 May, 2020, forest officials from Lekhapani (Assam) allegedly trespassed into Arunachal&#8217;s territory and damaged the foundation stone of the rural works department marking the interstate link road, and removed a PHED ODF signboard nearby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, on 15 December, 2021, Assam&#8217;s officials constructed vertical concrete structures (milestones) in the village within Arunachal&#8217;s territory, which the locals destroyed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On both occasions, the Manmao administration filed a complaint at the Manmao police station (PS) but nothing came of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The locals have also submitted a complaint letter to the deputy commissioner regarding the recent incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though it has been a longstanding demand of the locals that a proper check gate be constructed and regular police patrolling carried out, there has been no progress in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The locals say that, unless a police check gate is established and regular patrolling is carried out in the area, such incidents will continue and can escalate in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Junroi Mamai ] PHINBIRO-I, 19 Mar: The residents of Phinbiro-I village in Changlang district were on 15 March asked to remove a kutcha waiting shed they had constructed within their village area by forest officials of the Assam government. The shed has been constructed by the locals to serve as a resting place for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-186691","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\/186691","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=186691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}