Retired Colonel Dilip Kumar Duarah passes away due to cardiac arrest

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Col (retd) Dilip Kumar Duarah breathed his last at 1.26 pm today at the 151 Base Hospital, Basistha due to cardiac arrest. He was terminally ill for sometime. The deceased was born at Golaghat in 1953, to Charubala Duarah and Harendranath Duarah, he had his primary education at Doigrung and later joined Goalpara Sainik School.

He then joined the National Defence Academy. A skilful gymnast in his school and Academy days, he was also a tough mountaineer trained under Tenzing Norgay in the Himalayan Institute of Mountaineering.

After passing out from the Indian Military Academy he joined Indian Army and posted as a mountain warfare instuctor in the High Altitude Warfare School, Gulmarg. He had taken part in many expeditions to the then virgin Siachin Glacier in early part of Eighties -‘most notably the reconnaissance mission under Col.Narendra Bull Kumar in 1981.Based on the reports of this expedition, Indian Army initiated Operation Meghdoot to occupy those icy inhospitable heights in the highest Glacier. He also extended his service in the Indian peacekeeping mission to Sri Lanka. He leaves behind two children and a host of relatives.

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