The Arunachal Times: Itanagar:
Saturday, October 22, 2016.
The Arunachal
Pradesh Information Commission (APIC) on Friday regretted the distorted
headgear incident during decennial celebration of RTI Act that was held on
Wednesday here. Nyishi Elite Society (NES) and Nyishi Indigenous Faith and
Cultural Society (NIFCS) strongly condemned the incident and had called for
early replacement.
Regretting
the incident, State Chief Information Commissioner Dr. Joram Begi in a press
statement on Friday clarified that incident was inadvertent and had no intention
to hurt the community sentiment by using religious symbol nor any attempt to
distort any traditional attire of Nyishi community was made. Dr. Begi further
informed that realizing their oversight, the commission has already started the
replacement with a proper headgear.
He went on to
clarify that the commission had decided to felicitate the dignitaries coming
from outside the State to attend decennial celebration function with
traditional items of Arunachal Pradesh.
” During the
felicitation, my name was announced by anchor to present the traditional items
to guests including Chief Guest Tamiyo Taga. I did not notice the religious
symbol on headgear while doing the honour nor did any other member” Dr. Begi
added.
He further
stated that on being inquired, it was found that the staff who bought the
traditional items did not even notice the symbol.
“We did not
have any intention to use symbol of any particular religion in the programme
nor to distort any traditional attire of Nyishi community” Dr Begi said while
regretting the incident.
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