{"id":85594,"date":"2019-11-23T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=85594"},"modified":"2019-11-23T02:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:37:17","slug":"connectivity-is-being-given-highest-priority-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/11\/23\/connectivity-is-being-given-highest-priority-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectivity is being given highest priority: CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Nov 22:<\/strong> Speaking at the India Today conclave, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday said that, being a hilly state, Arunachal has its own unique challenges and opportunities, and that his government is giving &#8220;the highest priority&#8221; to connectivity for the state to develop.<br \/>\nGood quality road connectivity is reaching the interior villages, Khandu said, adding that &#8220;under the Trans-Arunachal Highway, which stretches over 1800 kms, 80 percent of road connectivity works have been completed.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rail and air connectivity to interior pockets in Arunachal are become a reality,&#8221; he said. &#8220;State capital Itanagar is already connected with railways, and<br \/>\nsurvey works are going on for rail connectivity in all foothills areas, and even in high-altitude areas like Tawang.&#8221;<br \/>\nKhandu also said his government is fully focusing on improving revenue generation. He informed that the state has increased its revenue from Rs 900 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 2100 crore in 2018-19.<br \/>\n&#8220;The objective is to increasingly become independent of the Centre&#8217;s funding for the development of the state,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Every state should be able to stand on its own feet, without depending too much on the Centre; only then can we realize the goal of a new India,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nEarlier, Arunachal was conferred the &#8216;most improved small state&#8217; award in terms of infrastructure, law and order, and education by India Today.<br \/>\nThe CM received the award from union Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change Minister, Prakash Javadekar.<br \/>\nAmong others, Health Minister Alo Libang, Lok Sabha member Tapir Gao, and MLA Tsering Tashi accompanied the CM. (CMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 22: Speaking at the India Today conclave, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday said that, being a hilly state, Arunachal has its own unique challenges and opportunities, and that his government is giving &#8220;the highest priority&#8221; to connectivity for the state to develop. Good quality road connectivity is reaching the interior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85594","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\/85594","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=85594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}