{"id":51472,"date":"2018-11-10T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2018-11-10T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:01:12","slug":"mla-advocates-consultations-before-creation-of-new-dist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/mla-advocates-consultations-before-creation-of-new-dist\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA advocates consultations before creation of new dist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 9:<\/strong> Anini MLA Rajesh Tacho in a letter to the chief minister suggested conducting a series of intensive consultations, from the grassroots to the administrative level, before going ahead with the proposal for creating a new district by bifurcating Lower Dibang Valley (LDV).<br \/>\nCiting Letter No DAD-59\/2018\/736, dated Itanagar, 2 August, 2018, issued by the DA secretary to the deputy commissioners of East Siang, Upper Siang and LDV districts, seeking reports on the feasibility of creating a new district by bifurcating East Siang, Upper Siang and LDV and verification of claims and counter claims, the MLA, in his letter written on 26 October, said: &#8220;The government has done well to seek verification in this regard. The government should have followed it with a vigorous public consultative process if at all such a division of a district (Lower Dibang Valley) is unavoidable, instead of seeking thirteen points documents along with the feasibility report.&#8221;<br \/>\nRaising objection to the bifurcation of LDV without prior public consultation, the MLA said the area which has been proposed as the new district runs adjacent to Dibang Valley district.<br \/>\n&#8220;The whole region of Ahi Valley and some portions of Ihi Valley fall in the jurisdiction of Dibang Valley, and therefore the Anini DC cannot be ignored in such a blatant fashion,&#8221; Tacho said.<br \/>\nHe said the Dibang Valley DC has to be a part and parcel of any consultation in such administrative matters &#8220;for a thorough and transparent discussion.&#8221;<br \/>\nReferring to a memorandum he had submitted to the CM on 31 July, Tacho said the government must be very clear about the territory that it is seeking to bifurcate.<br \/>\n&#8220;The concerned MLAs of the proposed areas must be taken into confidence before further consultations, instead of asking the DCs for putting up reports,&#8221; Tacho said, and suggested framing &#8220;safeguard policies post suo moto recognition of traditional lands in the proposed areas for the creation of new district.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 9: Anini MLA Rajesh Tacho in a letter to the chief minister suggested conducting a series of intensive consultations, from the grassroots to the administrative level, before going ahead with the proposal for creating a new district by bifurcating Lower Dibang Valley (LDV). Citing Letter No DAD-59\/2018\/736, dated Itanagar, 2 August, 2018, issued [&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-51472","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\/51472","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=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}