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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 7 May:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday announced that the Arunachal Pradesh government will erect a statue in memory of late Gyamar Padang, recognising his contribution towards promoting transparency and accountability in public institutions.<\/p>\n Announcing the decision on social media, Khandu said that Padang’s efforts played a significant role in drawing attention to gaps in the recruitment system and contributed towards strengthening transparency, accountability and efficiency in governance.<\/p>\n “Today, I met his family members and conveyed my heartfelt respect and condolences. The memorial will stand as a lasting tribute to his life and as an inspiration for future generations to uphold honesty, responsibility and public service,” the chief minister said.<\/p>\n \u00a0Padang, who was posthumously conferred the State Gold Medal, came into public prominence after exposing alleged irregularities in the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission’s recruitment process in 2022.<\/p>\n Padang is widely remembered across Arunachal for his demand for systemic reforms in the recruitment process. He died in May 2023 following a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n The Pan Arunachal Joint Steering Committee, which conducted stirs against paper leakage and cash-for-job scam in the state civil service agency, has been demanding building a ‘Statue of Honesty’ to pay homage to whistleblower Gyamar Padang’s contributions.<\/p>\n The All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union also joined the demand for erecting a statue to honour late Padang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 7 May: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday announced that the Arunachal Pradesh government will erect a statue in memory of late Gyamar Padang, recognising his contribution towards promoting transparency and accountability in public institutions. Announcing the decision on social media, Khandu said that Padang’s efforts played a significant role in drawing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282392","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\/282392","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=282392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282400,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282392\/revisions\/282400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}