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ITANAGAR, 19 Oct:<\/strong> Marcony Potom, Superintending Engineer (SE) at Urban Development and Housing (UD&H) department, passed away in Guwahati, Assam on Wednesday midnight, following a stroke.<\/p>\n He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.<\/p>\n Born in 1968 in Degi Potom village under Darak circle in West Siang district, Potom was the youngest son of late Remar Potom and late Yasak Potom.<\/p>\n He joined government service as junior engineer at Aalo PWD division in 1992.<\/p>\n Later, Potom joined the UD&H department as urban programme officer on deputation in 1998. He was promoted as deputy director in 2009 and then joint director (re-designated as superintending engineer) in 2016.<\/p>\n He had also served as general secretary of Galo Welfare Society.<\/p>\n The officials and staffs of the UD&H department have expressed shock and grief over the sudden and untimely demise of Potom and offered heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n “He was a very active and dedicated officer and contributed immensely to the growth of the department,” UD&H chief engineer Taring Darang said in a condolence message.<\/p>\n The Galo Peoples’ Federation deeply mourned the passing away of Potom and said the federation is deeply saddened by his sudden and untimely demise.<\/p>\n “He was an avid sportsman, a very sincere and efficient officer,” the GPF said in a condolence message and conveyed heartfelt condolences to bereaved family.<\/p>\n The Officers’ Badminton Club (OBC), Itanagar also expressed profound grief over the sad demise of Potom, who was also the vice president of the club.<\/p>\n “We are deeply saddened by the news of Potom’s demise.\u00a0 In his death, we have lost a brother and guide and his contribution to OBC will be remembered forever,” the club said in a condolence message.<\/p>\n It conveyed condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 19 Oct: Marcony Potom, Superintending Engineer (SE) at Urban Development and Housing (UD&H) department, passed away in Guwahati, Assam on Wednesday midnight, following a stroke. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. Born in 1968 in Degi Potom village under Darak circle in West Siang district, Potom was the youngest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203176","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\/203176","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=203176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}