{"id":244044,"date":"2024-07-10T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=244044"},"modified":"2024-07-10T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:41:49","slug":"villagers-demand-ban-on-quarrying-in-siku-riverbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/villagers-demand-ban-on-quarrying-in-siku-riverbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers demand ban on quarrying in Siku riverbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 9 Jul:<\/strong> The Mebo Dolung Yameng Kebang (MDYK) on Monday staged a protest in front of the East Siang DC office here, demanding a complete ban on quarrying activities in Siku riverbed in Mebo reserve forest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protesters said that collection of boulders and minor minerals from the Siku riverbed has been responsible for frequent change of the river&#8217;s course, causing massive soil erosion on its right bank every year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said that the local villagers had donated their lands for creation of the reserve forest to protect environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MDYK further demanded immediate stoppage of the ongoing quarrying activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The other demand of the protesters was &#8216;demarcation of the forest land&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protest was supported by the PRI members, gaon burahs and leaders of women and youth organisations of Mebo block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent PASIGHAT, 9 Jul: The Mebo Dolung Yameng Kebang (MDYK) on Monday staged a protest in front of the East Siang DC office here, demanding a complete ban on quarrying activities in Siku riverbed in Mebo reserve forest. The protesters said that collection of boulders and minor minerals from the Siku riverbed has been responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244044","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=244044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}