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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 4 Mar:<\/strong> A group of people, claiming to be “concerned citizens of Longding district” on Saturday alleged that the projects approved by the planning department in the budget estimate (BE)-2022-23 for Longding district “are individual-centric and not in the greater interest of the state and the district.”<\/p>\n Representing the group in a press conference here, one Manye Wangpan claimed that “most the projects are unreal, dubious and malicious to fill the coffers of a few individuals.”<\/p>\n He said that the group has in a representation to the finance principal secretary asked the finance department to “withhold administrative approvals and technical sanction and financial concurrence of the projects which are dubious and unreal projects.”<\/p>\n “If the government projects are being used by a few individuals, it is not for the greater interest of the state and the district,” said Wangpan.<\/p>\n He went on to allege that government schemes are poorly implemented in the district, and that the laid down norms are grossly violated.<\/p>\n “Longding is an infant district. It needs proper guidance,” he added.<\/p>\n The group alleged that “the project mentioned in Serial No 925 of the BE-2022-23 has been approved and highlighted in the same budget under PWD, and the scheme mentioned in BE-2022-23 for construction of soil erosion and protection of WRC field does not exist in Longding district.”<\/p>\n “There are small patches of WRC fields in the periphery of Tissing Nalla, but they are devoid of potential erosion,” the group said.<\/p>\n It further claimed that “in Serial No 951 of BE-2022-23, the Longding-Zebo road on the other side of Tizan Nalla, an additional road is not required as Trans-Arunachal Highway passes through Tizan Cha.”<\/p>\n It also alleged that “a few individuals, including the local MLA, are not using the fund properly and systematically,” and claimed that the construction of the approach road to Tumtong-I Colony, Chatting, and construction of the approach road from Tumtong-I to the government primary school in Tumtong, with a cost of Rs 50 lakhs each is just to siphon off the developmental fund as the Longding-Nokjan NEC road passes through Tumtong Colony.<\/p>\n The group further claimed that volleyball and football grounds at various schools “are poorly executed, thus making the future of schoolchildren in sports at stake.”<\/p>\n The Arunachal Times was unable to ascertain the veracity of the information and allegations. The daily sought a reaction from the Longding MLA through a WhatsApp message, but the MLA did not respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 4 Mar: A group of people, claiming to be “concerned citizens of Longding district” on Saturday alleged that the projects approved by the planning department in the budget estimate (BE)-2022-23 for Longding district “are individual-centric and not in the greater interest of the state and the district.” Representing the group in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212214","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\/212214","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=212214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}