North Lakhimpur Press Club Pays Homage to Tankeswar Dutta

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LAKHIMPUR: North Lakhimpur Press Club (NLPC) commemorated martyr journalist Tankeswar Dutta on Monday by observing his 9th death anniversary in a befitting manner.

On this occasion, a special symposium was convened under the aegis of the NLPC in its office premises. The journalist, who was also a retired teacher and prominent sport personality of Lakhimpur, lost his life in a tanga accident that took place in Rajgeer of Bihar on February 18, 2010 when he went there to participate in the convention of Indian Working Journalist Federation (IWJF). IWJF then declared him a martyr journalist.

The agenda of the event began with the lighting of earthen lamp by his wife Dimbeswari Bhuyan Dutta. She also led the floral tribute paying programme at portrait of the journalist. NLPC president Sailen Baruah chaired the symposium which was held on topic ‘The sport arena of Lakhimpur: Problems and potentials’. District Sport Officer Atul Chandra Barah, Lakhimpur Journalist Association president Tutumoni Phukan, sport personalities of Lakhimpur, Azad Hazarika and Arun Kumar Dutta, Lakhimpur MASS secretary Raju Singha, cricketer Chaukat Hassan, Hatilung Football Coaching Centre proprietor Dipankar Tamuli, Lakhimpur AASU president Dhanmoni Dutta, AJYCP State committee assistant secretary Saurabh Das, former president of NLPC, Surajit Bhuyan and teacher Prashanta Dutta took part in the symposium as speakers.

In their speech, the speakers pointed out various problems that the players of the district usually faced in the field with regard to expressing their talent despite having much potential. All of them stressed revising the sport policy of the government in order to build the State as a sport hub in the true sense by hunting the potent sports figures in the rural areas. They also stressed freedom of sports organizations from political interference.

After their discussion, resolutions were taken to start a sporting movement in the district, to pressurize the government to hold school tournaments regularly to create sport figures from childhood and to appoint physical instructors in each and every high school, to ensure due coaching to the talented players, to resolve the problem of a playground with adequate facilities, to mobilize the activities of the District Sport Association and to resolve many other allied issues. Former journalist Surajit Bhuyan emphasized expansion of sport journalism in the district.

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