{"id":315323,"date":"2017-09-29T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3975-editor-s-comments-offend-biswajit"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:30:00","slug":"editors-comments-offend-biswajit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/09\/29\/editors-comments-offend-biswajit\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s comments offend Biswajit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

IMPHAL | Sept 29<\/p>\n

Works minister, Th. Bishwajit Singh strongly refuted the allegations made by an editor of a local daily during morning news analysis programme of All India Radio (AIR) Thursday, against the works department, terming it as unfortunate.<\/p>\n

The editor of the local daily during the talk show reportedly criticized the present government particularly works department for its alleged failure to repair roads in Imphal dotted with potholes.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference at his office, the minister regretted the editor\u2019s allegations for being ignorant and unbecoming for a senior journalist.<\/p>\n

Bishwajit claimed the editor has entirely neglected the fact that Manipur this time has come under unpredictable onslaught of inclement weather at an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

Incessant rains has brought floods in the state for the fifth time besides triggering widespread landslides in the hills leaving trails of destruction, he said.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the government has been doing its best in responding to the prevailing situation and taking necessary measures, he asserted.<\/p>\n

The minister pointed out that even before the recently concluded budget session the department has taken up repairing works to fill potholes in Imphal taking into consideration the immediate need.<\/p>\n

However, constant rains and floodings have reduced the repairs worthless, he added.<\/p>\n

To avoid wasting of unnecessary time and funds taking up frequent temporary repairs citing unpredictable weather the department has made plans to give a proper facelift of the entire state, maintained the minister.<\/p>\n

Stating that necessary planning is almost complete, he assured to bring about a substantial change of the entire structure including road conditions, drainage system of the state by March.\u00a0 He appealed to the public to bear with the department.<\/p>\n

Further countering the criticism, the works minister dared the critic to take the responsibility of taking up works during rainy season.<\/p>\n

Bishwajit, who is also holding the portfolio of power, further gave his best shot to provide uninterrupted electricity during the upcoming under 17-FIFA football world cup due to begin from October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

Read more \/ Original news source: http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3975-editor-s-comments-offend-biswajit<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

IMPHAL | Sept 29<\/p>\n

Works minister, Th. Bishwajit Singh strongly refuted the allegations made by an editor of a local daily during morning news analysis programme of All India Radio (AIR) Thursday, against the works department, terming it as unfortunate.<\/p>\n

The editor of the local daily during the talk show reportedly criticized the present government particularly works department for its alleged failure to repair roads in Imphal dotted with potholes.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference at his office, the minister regretted the editor’s allegations for being ignorant and unbecoming for a senior journalist.<\/p>\n

Bishwajit claimed the editor has entirely neglected the fact that Manipur this time has come under unpredictable onslaught of inclement weather at an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

Incessant rains has brought floods in the state for the fifth time besides triggering widespread landslides in the hills leaving trails of destruction, he said.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the government has been doing its best in responding to the prevailing situation and taking necessary measures, he asserted.<\/p>\n

The minister pointed out that even before the recently concluded budget session the department has taken up repairing works to fill potholes in Imphal taking into consideration the immediate need.<\/p>\n

However, constant rains and floodings have reduced the repairs worthless, he added.<\/p>\n

To avoid wasting of unnecessary time and funds taking up frequent temporary repairs citing unpredictable weather the department has made plans to give a proper facelift of the entire state, maintained the minister.<\/p>\n

Stating that necessary planning is almost complete, he assured to bring about a substantial change of the entire structure including road conditions, drainage system of the state by March.  He appealed to the public to bear with the department.<\/p>\n

Further countering the criticism, the works minister dared the critic to take the responsibility of taking up works during rainy season.<\/p>\n

Bishwajit, who is also holding the portfolio of power, further gave his best shot to provide uninterrupted electricity during the upcoming under 17-FIFA football world cup due to begin from October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-315323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315325,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315323\/revisions\/315325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}