{"id":43113,"date":"2018-08-31T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=43113"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:17:20","slug":"governor-seeks-landing-system-at-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/08\/31\/governor-seeks-landing-system-at-psg\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor seeks landing system at Psg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 30:<\/strong> Governor BD Mishra has written to Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu, urging him for early installation of a landing system at the advanced landing ground (ALG) in East Siang HQ Pasighat &#8220;to enable all-weather, round-the-year and round-the-clock operation of commercial flights.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe ALG in Pasighat is the only operational airport for fixed-wing aircraft passenger service in Arunachal Pradesh, the governor said.<br \/>\n&#8220;At present, Alliance Air&#8217;s ATR-42 aircraft are operating from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati, thrice a week on alternate days. The commencement of the flight received overwhelming welcome by the people of Arunachal Pradesh as a very important amenity for the state,&#8221; Mishra said.<br \/>\nReferring to a recent report in the print media, the governor informed the union minister that the only fixed-wing air service in the state, which started in May this year, &#8220;is undergoing frequent cancellations.&#8221;<br \/>\nReiterating that Arunachal Pradesh is strategically a very important frontier state bordering China, Mishra said, &#8220;In the interest of our national defence, as also the onerous public interest like medical emergencies and the like, a suitable landing system at the ALG, Pasighat, is an inescapable requirement.&#8221; (PRO, Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 30: Governor BD Mishra has written to Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu, urging him for early installation of a landing system at the advanced landing ground (ALG) in East Siang HQ Pasighat &#8220;to enable all-weather, round-the-year and round-the-clock operation of commercial flights.&#8221; The ALG in Pasighat is the only operational airport for [&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-43113","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\/43113","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=43113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}