Veteran Arunachal Journalist Taro Chatung Passes Away

Guwahati, October 26, 2019:

Arunachal’s veteran journalist Taro Chatung passed away on Saturday morning at the Tomo Riba Institute of Health & Medical Science (TRIHMS) at Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh.

Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu has expressed condolences at the sad demise of the veteran journalist.

Pema Khandu in a message said, “It breaks my heart to know Chatung sir is no more with us. We grew up hearing about him and watched him on ‘News & Views’ every evening through the week days on DDK Itanagar. It would be impossible to fill the void he has left behind as the omnipresent journalist.”

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The Chief Minister remembered his long acquaintance with Late Chatung and hailed him as a man of immense historical and political knowledge of the state, grounded, sincere, straightforward, honest and witty.

He also worked in the first Independent Satellite TV of NE Region- ‘NETV’. He joined it as Bureau in Charge of Arunachal State. He produced a weekly TV programme on current affairs of Arunachal State, which was telecast on the Channel every Monday.

Late Taro Chatung chose media as his profession and become its pioneer in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Chatung was the first person from Arunachal State to be appointed as TV news stringer of DDK Guwahati in 2001 and he continued for ten years. Chatung also published and edited a local daily in English called “Frontier Voice” from November 2005 to February 2006

Late Chatung became one of the firsts to direct and produce a full-length feature film in Hindi, with his ‘News & Views’ breaking all records in terms of viewership in Arunachal Pradesh.

Taro Chatung did his Graduation from Punjab University in 1984 and Certificate Course in Journalism in the same year. He learned basic TV production in 1997 from Mumbai.

Chatung wanted to join the Indian Air Force but his first ambition was not consented by his parent.

He was an accredited Journalist and Chief Editor of this arunachaldaily.com, a on online publication.

He is the first indigenous film Director of this State. His first feature film is ‘DONYI” with a theme on inter tribal marriage and its importance, which was produced in 1985-86.

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