Iswarati Center for Badminton Learning

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 train the youths of Assam and North-Eastern India. It is a private non-profit association and created by Dipankar himself.

It is started as an association in 2004 at Guwahati with the support of few interested peoplemorally 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 thefuture of Badminton in Assam, North-East India, and India as a whole. There are ongoingefforts by authorities of Badminton like International Badminton Federation (IBF) to popularizebadminton and draw more sponsors and fans into it. Dipankar also believes in these effortsand he is doing his part to contribute to the future success of making Badminton a much more entertainingand popular sports. He is constantly approaching potential sponsors in Assam and N.E. Indiaas well as from other neighbouring states. He is optimistic that there will be growing attentiontowards Badminton and more interest from the big companies who already advertise their brand throughother sports like Cricket and Tennis in India.

He has been one of the first member at BPL Prakash Padukone Academy in Bangalore and hadthe fortune of training with Prakash. His association with Prakash has given him more hopes inventuring out in popularizing Badminton and training talented youths of the oft-neglectedregion of Assam and the North-East India.

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

External links

* [http://www.iswarati.com Official website]