Joining the rest of the country, Pentavalent vaccine was launched on Saturday in East Siang District. Now the multiple numbers of injections containing five antigens will be reduced to just one injection per session. The launch formally started with first administration of intramuscular vaccine to an infant by the East Siang Deputy Commissioner Isha Khosla at the general hospital, Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.
Khosla emphasized on awareness on the newly introduced vaccine, urged the health department to make the routine immunization successful in the district, and further assured all necessary help and cooperation from her administration. She while appealing all parents to get their children vaccinated has expressed hope that with the launching of vaccine, no children in the district will be left without vaccination.
The East Siang DRDA governing body met presided over by ZPC chairman Kaling Dai and was attended by MP Ninong Ering along with Deputy Commission Isha Khosla, ZPMs, Anchal Samity Chairpersons, BDOs, representative of Banks.Dai said that DRDA implements various rural development and poverty alleviation programs like MGNREGA, IAY, IWMP etc to promote social and economic stability among rural masses especially those who are living bellow poverty line.Khosla said MGNREGA is not only meant for wage-employment but also to enhance living standard of the people and infrastructural development of the society.MP Ninong Ering said that a proper mindset with positive attitude should be developed....
Trees getting uprooted and falling on electrical lines, resulting in hours of power outage is a common phenomenon during monsoon. Normal power supply remains heavily interrupted on the Pasighat-Pangin power line after a huge tree fell on a powerful a electric wire on Monday. Engineers along with departmental staffs have already been pressed into restoration process. It would take two days or more to reconnect the network.
Incessant rain for the last couple of days has paralyzed life in Pasighat and adjoining areas. Hilly rivers and streams are seen overflowing and posing a threat to road communication, paddy fields, horticulture gardens, fishponds, irrigation channels and human habitations. Heavy showers has caused water clogging in several places besides inundating paddy field at Pasighat, Sille, Ruksin and Mebo circles.Notorious Poglek River, locally known as Pagla river has damaged standing crops in vast areas besides disrupting road communication between Pasighat and Yagrung. Advisor to Chief Minister Bosiram Siram along with Deputy Commissioner Isha Khosla, ZPC Kaling Dai, and PRI leaders and...
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