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[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n PASIGHAT, 22 Jan:<\/strong> Orik Moyong – the grandson of Eda Moyong alias Ada Moyong, who had served as a public interpreter (PI) during the NEFA period and died while assisting Indian Army personnel during the Chinese aggression in 1962 at Thin Patra [Tuting hill site] – appealed to the home department to complete the process for declaring his grandfather, late Moyong, as a martyr.<\/p>\n Petitioner Orik Moyong, a resident of Debing village in East Siang district, has been moving the state government to declare his grandfather as a martyr, but the issue is pending in the government’s office for the last six years.<\/p>\n Late Moyong, who hailed from Adi Pasi village in the present Upper Siang district, had joined service as a PI in 1945. It is worth mentioning here that a condolence message sent to late Moyong’s family by the then NEFA administration clearly mentions that he [Moyong] “died while discharging government duties.”<\/p>\n The Indian Army could not consign Moyong’s body to his family due to a communication bottleneck.<\/p>\n Orik Moyong had in 2016 submitted a petition to the then East Siang DC, seeking his initiative for recognition of his grandfather as a martyr.<\/p>\n Accordingly, the then DC had collected information about late Moyong from his contemporaries and officials of Upper Siang and West Siang districts, which was later forwarded to the social justice & empowerment and tribal affairs (SJETA) department for necessary action.<\/p>\n Official documents reveal that former SJETA undersecretary CK Gohain had dealt with the matter and processed the official work pertaining to the martyr declaration demand. But the process came to a halt after the official’s transfer.<\/p>\n However, in a recent development, Orik Moyong, following the instruction of SJETA officials, submitted a petition to the home department secretary and commissioner afresh, pleading for completion of the pending process.<\/p>\n Reportedly, the petitioner had earlier approached the MPs and MLAs of East Siang district, and even Chief Minister Pema Khandu, seeking action in this regard, but to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Prafulla Kaman ] PASIGHAT, 22 Jan: Orik Moyong – the grandson of Eda Moyong alias Ada Moyong, who had served as a public interpreter (PI) during the NEFA period and died while assisting Indian Army personnel during the Chinese aggression in 1962 at Thin Patra [Tuting hill site] – appealed to the home department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209374","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\/209374","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=209374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}