{"id":90706,"date":"2020-01-18T02:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90706"},"modified":"2020-01-18T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:40:06","slug":"capital-bandh-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/18\/capital-bandh-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital bandh announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 17:<\/strong> The Arunachal Indigenous Students&#8217; Union (AISU) on Friday announced a 12-hour capital bandh on 28 January to press its various demands.<br \/>\nThe union&#8217;s demands are: deporting Chakma and Hajong refugees from the state; renaming RGU as Arunachal University; renaming Indira Gandhi Park as Abotani Park; cancelling licences of liquor outlets; reserving 3 percent job quota for APST artists; disbursing monthly stipends to students; including Arunachal history in the<br \/>\ncurricula of Classes 3-9; shifting government and private schools near the highway; installing the biometric system in all government schools; introducing helicopter services to remote areas of the state; erecting streetlights in the capital complex; and assigning areas 100 metres away from the highway for celebration of festivals.<br \/>\nAddressing reporters at the press club here, AISU president Techi Talik expressed resentment over the state government&#8217;s alleged failure to pay attention to the union&#8217;s demands.<br \/>\n&#8220;As indigenous people of the state, we are only claiming what is rightfully ours, our indigenous rights,&#8221; Talik said. &#8220;We are confused whether our government is working for the welfare of its indigenous population or if it is anti-indigenous.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn the matter of granting citizenship to Chakmas and Hajongs, Talik said the union will not heed the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to grant citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong refugees settled in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 17: The Arunachal Indigenous Students&#8217; Union (AISU) on Friday announced a 12-hour capital bandh on 28 January to press its various demands. The union&#8217;s demands are: deporting Chakma and Hajong refugees from the state; renaming RGU as Arunachal University; renaming Indira Gandhi Park as Abotani Park; cancelling licences of liquor outlets; reserving 3 [&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-90706","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\/90706","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=90706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}