Iswarati Center for Badminton Learning
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Iswarati Center for Badminton Learning (ICBL) - This is a school of Badminton opened by famous former three-times Indian National Badminton Champion and two-times Olympian Mr. Dipankar Bhattacharjee in Guwahati, Assam, India. This training center is specially created to groom the talented youths of Assam and North-Eastern India in making them future champions at various levels in India and abroad. It is a private non-profit association and a brain-child of Dipankar himself.
It is started as an association in 2004 at Guwahati with the support of few interested people morally backing Dipankar in his efforts.
Dipankar has unnsuccessfully approached many sponsors like the big businesses in the area. But he is pursuing support from sponsors in the future to make this effort successful.
Dipankar takes care of coaching the students at a regular basis. The players are promised with bright future in the national and international badminton arena.
Dipankar feels that this Academy for Badminton learning is a very important step for the future of Badminton in Assam, North-East India, and India as a whole. There are ongoing efforts by authorities of Badminton like International Badminton Federation (IBF) to popularize badminton and draw more sponsors and fans into it. Dipankar also believes in these efforts and he is doing his part to contribute to the future success of making Badminton a much more entertaining and popular sports. He is constantly approaching potential sponsors in Assam and N.E. India as well as from other neighbouring states. He is optimistic that there will be growing attention towards Badminton and more interest from the big companies who already advertise their brand through other sports like Cricket and Tennis in India.
He has been one of the first member at BPL Prakash Padukone Academy in Bangalore and had the fortune of training with Prakash. His association with Prakash has given him more hopes in venturing out in popularizing Badminton and training talented youths of the oft-neglected region of Assam and the North-East India.
[edit] Organizational structure
President:
- Shri, P. K. Deb, Adviser Transport & Communication, North-Eastern Council, Shillong
Vice Presidents:
- Shri Iswar Bhattacharjee (Retd. PWD Executive Engineer)
- Shri Dilip Biswas
- Shri Pradip Hazarika
General Secretary:
- Shri Dipankar Bhattacharjee
Treasurer:
- Shri Biswajit Ghosh
Jt. Secretaries:
- Shri Arup Buragohain
- Shri Arup Das
- Shri Parasmoni Deka
