Pioneer journalist Taro Chatung continues to be a role model: Minister Tage Taki

 OUR CORRESPONDENT

ITANAGAR: The legendary journalist of Arunachal Pradesh, Taro Chatung, still continues to inspire and remains a role model to young upcoming journalists, said Agriculture Minister Tage Taki while addressing the first edition of the Taro Chatung Memorial Students Meet at Ziro in Lower Subansiri district. Saying Chatung was ‘well ahead of his times’ and had brought about a ‘revolution’ in the fields of electronic media and local filmmaking in the early 90’s, the Minister said Chatung’s inimitable style of news reporting, which cut an instant bond with the general masses, was the reason for the growth and popularity of electronic media in the state during its nascent period in the early 1990s. Appreciating the Apatani Students Union (ASU) for organizing the first edition of the Taro Chatung Memorial Students Meet in memory of the pioneer journalist from the Apatani community, the minister urged the budding journalists to imbibe his qualities of simplicity, generosity, and striking an instant chord with the masses to be successful in their chosen field of media. Lower Subansiri Deputy Commissioner Bamin Nime said in his address that late Chatung had been a ‘daring path breaker’ in the field of media and had inspired many talented young students to take up journalism as their careers, thereby creating self-employment for themselves rather than hankering after white-collar jobs.

Informing that Ziro Valley had been enlisted as the 7th preferred tourist destination place in India, the DC urged denizens of the district to keep their surroundings neat and clean and help the administration with garbage management and tackling the drug menace in the district. Attending as a special invitee, senior journalist and vice president of the Arunachal Press Club Bengia Ajum said that Chatung still continues to live in the hearts of the press fraternity of the state for his yeoman contributions in the field of journalism. Expressing gratitude to the Apatani Students Union for organizing the meet, Ajum said the entire press fraternity is grateful to ASU for organising the meet in memory of the pioneer journalist of the state.

"Infact, the Arunachal Press Club was contemplating organising such a meet in memory of our beloved Chatung, but we are glad ASU has come up with the event," he added while informing APC that it also annually gives a ‘Taro Chatung Excellence Award in the field of electronic journalism’ in memory of the ace media icon during National Press Day on November 16 every year.

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