{"id":72667,"date":"2019-07-17T01:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=72667"},"modified":"2019-07-17T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:54:49","slug":"hoj-potin-road-in-perilous-condition-500-vehicles-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/17\/hoj-potin-road-in-perilous-condition-500-vehicles-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoj-Potin road in perilous condition, 500 vehicles stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Karda Natam ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, Jul 16:<\/strong> More than 500 vehicles were stranded for at least three hours on the Hoj-Potin road here in Upper Subansiri district on Tuesday.<br \/>\nRain-triggered landslides and mudslides are occurring on a daily basis on the road, creating hardship for commuters to and from Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, Lower Subansiri, Kamle and Upper Subansiri districts.<br \/>\nSeveral vehicles are stranded and forced to line up in queues every day on the Hoj-Potin road. Very often, private earth movers (JCB) are hired to clear the mudslides, with the motorists having to bear the hire charges.<br \/>\nThe hire charge is collected from every vehicle owner or driver and handed over to the JCB drivers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Commuters should take care of themselves while driving on this road. They should especially take care of shooting stones and landslides,&#8221; said a commuter, and advised bike riders to use helmet and avoid using earphones while riding on the road.<br \/>\nThe general opinion is that commuters should avoid travelling on the road unless they have urgent reasons to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Water supply disrupted<\/strong><br \/>\nIn Upper Siang district, the Yubbi and Yingkiong Sipat sources of water supply to Gette village were disrupted due to heavy rainfall on 12 July.<br \/>\nYingkiong-II PHE&amp;WS Section JE Boni Perme informed that restoration works are being undertaken to restore the water supply at the earliest, the DIPRO informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Karda Natam ] DAPORIJO, Jul 16: More than 500 vehicles were stranded for at least three hours on the Hoj-Potin road here in Upper Subansiri district on Tuesday. Rain-triggered landslides and mudslides are occurring on a daily basis on the road, creating hardship for commuters to and from Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, Lower Subansiri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72667","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\/72667","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=72667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}