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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 22 Sep:<\/strong> Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state capital to lay the foundation stones of two hydroelectric projects in Shi-Yomi district and other infrastructure projects, the Adi Students’ Union (AdiSU) enforced a 12-hour bandh in Siang and Upper Siang districts.<\/p>\n The protest, against the deployment of paramilitary forces in the two districts, started at 5 am and ended at 5 pm.<\/p>\n The bandh was supported by the AdiSU’s interstate and inter-district units and students union units based in Guwahati and Shillong.<\/p>\n According to Siang SP James Kabang Lego, around 500 protestors, mainly women, participated in the protest. He said that more than 250 were from Geku in Upper Siang, who staged a protest in Boleng and gheraoed the DC office.<\/p>\n The SP informed that the protestors demanded removal of illegal encroachment on government schools across Siang district, and protested against conducting activities to prepare the pre-feasibility report for the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP).<\/p>\n \u00a0No incident of violence was reported, the SP said.<\/p>\n The AdiSU had submitted representations over its demands against the SUMP to the state government on 25 August and 11 September, which evoked no response from the government.<\/p>\n The union has called for immediate withdrawal of unauthorised state officials reportedly stationed in Siang and Upper Siang districts.<\/p>\n The AdiSU in its representation also sought immediate revocation of the suspension order issued against the eight GBs and HGBs by the Siang deputy commissioner.<\/p>\n It stated that unless villagers from the 31 affected communities in Siang and Upper Siang districts are fully informed and convinced of the initiatives, there should be no preparation of a pre-feasibility report for the SUMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state capital to lay the foundation stones of two hydroelectric projects in Shi-Yomi district and other infrastructure projects, the Adi Students’ Union (AdiSU) enforced a 12-hour bandh in Siang and Upper Siang districts. The protest, against the deployment of paramilitary forces in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271146","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\/271146","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=271146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}