It is only second to Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, which is the highest sporting honour in India. Head coach Bidhan Das said the team mostly comprises U18 local girls and the objective will be to gain experience so that they can win the state league next season to get direct qualification for the IWL. The ACA also organised a T20 Challengers’ Trophy among six teams, that have been formed with best players from the 18 districts that had participated in the Kanaklata Barua tournament, Saikia said. The ACA secretary said, “The inter-district tournament encouraged the young girls to play the game in a more systematic and professional manner.” The ACA, he said, has started the first-ever inter-district women’s tournament from this year and named it after freedom fighter Kanaklata Barua. Started in 1961, the Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to recognize outstanding achievement in sports.

“On a given day, I think we really have a very good chance of beating any team. We have won against top teams in the world in the past and it is possible this time also if we give our best. So, this kind of experience has helped the players get more self-belief and perform well in the international arena,” Monalisa said.The Indian men’s team will face China in the opening round while the women’s team will open their campaign against Romania. The individual events will be played from July 27 to August 4 whereas the team events are scheduled from August 5 to 10. Ace table tennis player Monalisa Baruah Mehta is the second Assamese to receive Arjuna Award. Monalisa was the 12 time state champion and won the national table tennis championship eight times.

�We are committed for the development of sports in the State and we are promoting sports like football, cricket, table tennis among others.� He also revealed that as per the announcement made earlier, OIL will present Rs 20 lakh to golden girl Hima Das. �As she will be in Assam, the cheque will be handed over to Hima,� Bora said. Monalisa Baruah Mehta and Kamlesh Mehta are one of the three table tennis couples to win the Arjuna Award. The former won it in 1987 and the latter won the national award two years prior in 1985. As a key member of the men’s hockey team, Carvalho represented the nation in many events such as the Olympics. As for Vandana Rao, she won gold at the 1986 Asian Games and represented the country in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.

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Poulomi Ghatak and Soumyadeep Roy are both notable figures in table tennis. While the former won the Arjuna Award in 2009, the latter received it in 2005. They are interestingly the third couple to both win the national award for table tennis. For a sportsperson regardless of their game, receiving the Arjuna Award is by far one of the biggest honours. While winning major domestic and international trophies is an aim for every individual in sports, winning the Arjuna Award is a dream.

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Whereas Wilson Cherian was an exceptional swimmer who also represented the country in various international events. Saina Nehwal is a former World No.1 player in women’s singles and a medal winner in various prestigious events such as the Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games and more. She was also the recipient of the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award in 2010. Parupalli Kashyap has also won multiple medals, including gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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• She received Arjun Award, the prestigious Sports award from Government of India, in the year 1987.
• Thanking AFA for nominating the club, GCFC director Kaustab Chakraborty urged it to organise state women’s and men’s league from next season.

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• The tournament was played in an inter-zonal category last year, but was upgraded to the inter-district level in 2022.

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• World Championships bronze-medallist Shiva Thapa is the fourth Assamese player to receive the prestigious award in 2016.

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• She is currently working With Oil India Ltd as Senior Manager, HR & Admin.

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He also represented the country in other major events such as the World Championships, Asian Championships and the Olympics. This will be the first instance of India participating in the team table tennis events at the Olympics. Notably, the men’s and women’s team events were introduced at the Olympic Games in 2008 (Beijing). The five categories for the sport are men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed doubles, men’s team, and women’s team. Notably, India is set to field six athletes in table tennis across categories, led by Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra. The Indian table tennis contingent still eyes its maiden Olympic medal in the sport.

Several high-profile sportspersons have won the award and some of them are married to each other. In football, the Guwahati City Football Club (GCFC) team is set to be the first ever club from Assam to play in the women’s top Division Football. Their senior women’s team will start the campaign in the qualifying round of the Indian Women’s League (IWL), scheduled to be held from April 1 at the Dr Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi. Our players cannot perform if they don’t have match practice and we cannot concentrate only on men’s team.