{"id":92051,"date":"2020-02-01T01:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=92051"},"modified":"2020-02-01T01:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:29:04","slug":"matin-dai-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/matin-dai-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Matin Dai passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 31:<\/strong> Matin Dai, retired chief secretary of Arunachal, passed away in Itanagar on 31 January. He was 85 years old.<br \/>\nDai was the first Arunachalee to become a chief secretary. Born in Balek village, near Pasighat, he matriculated from Sadiya in 1952. Later he did his bachelor of arts from St Edmund&#8217;s College, Shillong.<br \/>\nHe joined government service as base superintendent in 1956, and was later inducted to the Indian Frontier Administrative Service.<br \/>\nHe served in various parts of the state, including as the deputy commissioner of Bomdila.<br \/>\nHe also served as secretary and commissioner of the state before becoming the chief secretary of Arunachal in 1988. He retired in 1991.<br \/>\nDai leaves behind his daughter, eminent writer Mamang Dai, and sons Ojing Dai and Otem Dai.<br \/>\nThe last rites will be held on 2 February.<br \/>\nThe Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists and the Arunachal Press Club have expressed deep shock and sorrow over Dai&#8217;s demise. The press community on Friday expressed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.<br \/>\nThe East Kameng Social Welfare &amp; Cultural Organisation also mourned Dai&#8217;s demise, and described him as a true legend who dedicated his entire life to the state&#8217;s bureaucracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 31: Matin Dai, retired chief secretary of Arunachal, passed away in Itanagar on 31 January. He was 85 years old. Dai was the first Arunachalee to become a chief secretary. Born in Balek village, near Pasighat, he matriculated from Sadiya in 1952. Later he did his bachelor of arts from St Edmund&#8217;s College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92051","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\/92051","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=92051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}