GOVERNMENT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH
                                     DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION PUBLIC RELATIONS & PRINTING
                                                                        // NAHARLAGUN //

NO.IPR(PR)-86/2002                                                            Dated Naharlagun, the 21st  July, 2003.

                                                                         PRESS RELEASE

ALONG, 21 JULY, 2003: Arunachal Horticulture processing Industry at Nigmoi in West Siang District which was started in the year 1986 with an imaginative blue-print to uplift the economy of the district in particular and State in general comes alive in the hands of private individual after remaining defunct for more than decade since its inception.

Leased out to Shri Ego Riba from the 1st day of August 2002 for a period of ten years at fixed lease rent of Rs. 2 lakhs annually to Govt. The unit re-christined as “ SIANG FRUIT CANING FACTORY” and its managing Director Shri Ego Riba has left no stone unturned to make it operational within a record period of time with limited resources and manpower at his disposal. The products like Orange and pineapple juice are now knocking the market doors within and outside the State.

With the functioning of industry, the horticulture products like oranges and pineapple which are produced in abundance in the district will not only get a market value and facility but encourage people will depend on industry’s few silver lining areas in its trial without drifting to barrage of losses. As it offers an insight into our economic activities. We in turn should show our social responsibility for the economic cause by contributing and cooperating in its making. It can give a crucial input to economy.

The Govt. can still help the cause of the factory by lowering the annual lease rent initially and make the products as officially approved drinks in the state as economic interests of the horticulturalists are attached to the factory. ‘One person one bottle’ attitude of the citizens will be no less encouraging too.

C.M. LONGPHONG 
Deputy Director, (PR)