Monalisa Baruah Mehta (Maiden Name: Monalisa Baruah ) is a

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player of

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. She received an

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

in 1987 and is an important Assamese sports personality. She is married to

Kamlesh Mehta Kamlesh Navichandra Mehta (born 1 May 1960) is an Indian retired table tennis player. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for table tennis. Personal life Nickna ...

, eight-time national table tennis champion. She has recently purchased an apartment in Shine Heaven, Panjabari, Guwahati.http://www.shinerealtors.com/news.html She is employed in

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Indian female table tennis players Recipients of the Arjuna Award Living people Sportswomen from Assam 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people Racket sportspeople from Assam Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-tabletennis-bio-stub