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ITANAGAR, Nov 2: Arunachal Pradesh mountaineer Taka Tamut brought laurels for the state as he was conferred with the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award-2019, the highest adventure sports honour of the country on Monday.
Union Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Anurag Thakur felicitated various Sports Awardees for 2020 along with Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awardees 2019 on November 1 in New Delhi.
The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awardee though happy expressed his disillusionment for not being given due credit by the Arunachal Pradesh government. He says his counterparts in other states are treated at par with Arjuna Award recipients which is not the case here.
“The Arjuna Awards and the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards are both equivalent awards but the Arunachal Pradesh government gives preference to the former,” Tamut says. He added that there has been no recognition forthcoming and all financial and other aids conferred to his counterparts in other states have remained elusive in his case.
“My fellow TNNAA recipients from other states have received facilities such as cash assistance, government job including plot of land from their respective governments but in my case I have received nothing despite bringing name for the state,” said the ace mountaineer. The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, formerly known as the National Adventure Awards, is named after Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest along with Edmund Hillary in 1953.

Conferred annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award is regarded as one of the highest national awards for adventure sports in India. It recognises achievements in the field of adventure on land, sea and air. 
It may be mentioned here that the awards for the year 2019 were conferred by President Ram Nath Kovind in a virtual ceremony on August 29 last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Tamut, who scaled Mount Everest in 2018 without the help of Sherpas, won the award in the land adventure category. He was also part of teams that scaled Mount Lhotse (8,510 metres) in 2017, Mount Mera (6,300 metres) in 2017 and Mount Stok Kangri (6,153 metres) in 2016.
But the real reason why his name is familiar to people from all across the country is because he was part of the team that helped retrieve the bodies from the AN-32 crash site in Siang district. On June 3, 2019, an AN-32 aircraft on a routine flight from Air Force Station, Jorhat in Assam to Mechukha with thirteen on board had gone missing in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh. Tamut, a civil engineering graduate who hails from Jomlo Mongku village in Siang district was one of the 15 members that undertook the18-day arduous search operation to retrieve the bodies of the air warriors. He was conferred the Arunachal Pradesh gold medal award and the AOC-IN-C medal by the IAF for taking part in the rescue operation.
The Directorate of Youth Affairs and several prominent personalities of the state including Chief Minister Pema Khandu took to Twitter to congratulate Taka on his achievement.

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