{"id":79925,"date":"2019-09-26T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79925"},"modified":"2019-09-26T00:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:05:37","slug":"power-depts-ee-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/power-depts-ee-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Power dept&#8217;s EE passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 25:<\/strong> Executive engineer of power department Likha Taje died on Tuesday after a prolonged illness at Shillong.<br \/>\nLikha Taje was born on 5 August 1965. He has left behind his wife, two sons and two daughters.<br \/>\nWhile mourning the death of executive engineer, the department of power, in a release said, late Taje was awarded gold medal by the state government for his contribution in designing and developing a low head Pelton Turbine of 5 KW capacity suitable for variable heads up to maximum of 25 mtrs and useful for electrification of rural villages on standalone mode.<br \/>\nThe Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh (CoSAAP), Likha Welfare Society (LWS), Likha Youth Forum (LYF) and Yachuli Constituency Employee Forum (YCEF) have also expressed their condolences.<br \/>\nThe CoSAAP in a condolence message said, &#8220;In his death, the state has lost an energetic and innovative officer. The CoSAAP, on behalf of all the state government employees, prays to the Almighty God for eternal peace for the departed soul and to bestow strength to the bereaved family to bear with the loss.<br \/>\nJoining the condolence, LWS and LYF paid tribute to the mortals remains of the deceased on Wednesday. Both the organizations hailed Likha Taje as an ardent believer of indigenous faith and culture and said he was regarded as one of the renowned modern-day priests (Jitte-Buutte) of the Nyishi society.<br \/>\nIt further said, Taje was also known for his selfless work for the uplift of the downtrodden section of the society by conducting health and education awareness camps, particularly in rural areas.<br \/>\nIt was in the year 1984, when young Taje, a student of class XII, was awarded gold medal for winning national-level science seminar at Calcutta for his innovative design and development of hydropower turbine.<br \/>\nHe also served as the general secretary of All Arunachal Shasikan Karate-do- Association (ASKA) during the year 1989-1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 25: Executive engineer of power department Likha Taje died on Tuesday after a prolonged illness at Shillong. Likha Taje was born on 5 August 1965. He has left behind his wife, two sons and two daughters. While mourning the death of executive engineer, the department of power, in a release said, late Taje [&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-79925","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\/79925","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=79925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}