{"id":88898,"date":"2019-12-27T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88898"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:39:20","slug":"forum-makes-series-of-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/27\/forum-makes-series-of-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum makes series of demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 26:<\/strong> Yingkiong (Upper Siang)-based Anti Corruptions and Social Welfare Activists Forum has demanded that the state government provide 24&#215;7 hassle-free mobile internet services in the state.<br \/>\nAddressing journalists at the Arunachal Press Club here on Thursday, the forum\u2019s president, Amin Danggen, demanded immediate improvement of mobile and internet services in the state, claiming that &#8220;due to higher rate of call drops and slow internet service, many online-related works are hampered in Upper Siang in particular and the state as a whole.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe forum said it submitted a 16-point charter of demands to the chief minister on 16 December, which it said was received by the special secretary to the CM.<br \/>\nIt also demanded that the government initiate proper investigation into all corruption-related cases to root out the menace from the state.<br \/>\n&#8220;Until and unless corruption is checked and minimized, Arunachal Pradesh can never be developed,&#8221; Danggen said.<br \/>\nThe forum also sought a blanket ban on tobacco products, firearms (air guns) and &#8220;laying foundation stones and inauguration culture by MLAs and VIPs,&#8221; saying such things &#8220;unnecessarily incur lots of financial involvement.&#8221;<br \/>\nTerming the state government&#8217;s reported move to declare the forests, land and rivers of Arunachal as unclassified state forest &#8220;totally unacceptable,&#8221; it demanded that the government grant the right to land, rivers and forests to the owners.<br \/>\nIt also demanded that a forensic lab and a cold storage be established in Arunachal, and added that the government should materialize all the MoUs it has signed with power developers for construction of small dams and hydels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 26: Yingkiong (Upper Siang)-based Anti Corruptions and Social Welfare Activists Forum has demanded that the state government provide 24&#215;7 hassle-free mobile internet services in the state. Addressing journalists at the Arunachal Press Club here on Thursday, the forum\u2019s president, Amin Danggen, demanded immediate improvement of mobile and internet services in the [&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-88898","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\/88898","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=88898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}