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Dr. Akhilesh Das GuptaDr. Akhilesh Das GuptaDr. Akhilesh Das GuptaPresident - BAIPresident - BAIPresident - BAI

Chairman - UPBAChairman - UPBAChairman - UPBA

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Dear Members,

Badminton Associa�on of India has achieved glorious heights in terms of excellent performance at the interna�onal levels as wells as in organizing most pres�gious interna�onal events in India.

While our endeavor to achieve higher excellence in performance at the world levels would con�nue vigorously, we felt it is the right �me, the Badminton fraternity also started contribu�ng towards the welfare of the society .Dona�ng blood was one of such noble causes which can go a long way helping the needy people and save their precious life.

Due to steep increase in the life threading diseases as also in number of accidents /disasters, the requirement of blood has gone up manifold.

Considering the value of blood in today's world , the badminton associa�on of Indian in conjunc�on with the U�ar Pradesh Badminton Assocai�on, Babu Banarsi Das Academy and Red Cross Society Lucknow took up

thini�a�ve to organize a volunteer Blood Dona�on Camp at the BBD Academy on 27 January 2017 during Syed Modi Interna�onal Badminton Tournament.

During this camp, a large number of technical officials, managers Coaches including Mr. P Gopichand , the Chief coach of Indian Team and many other members of Badminton fraternity came forward to donate blood . Though we kept the policy of refraining players from this “Blood dona�on camp” but I appreciate the zeal of Miss Anushka Parikh from Gujrat, who along with her mother insisted to become one of the Blood donor and donated blood for the first �me in her life as her long las�ng agenda since long.

I would like to convey my deep apprecia�on and complement one and all who were associated with the organiza�on of this blood camp especially those who donated blood.

I would like to urge all the state Badminton Associa�on and the Badminton fraternity in general to organize such camps in future too during various na�onal /interna�onal events and contribute towards this noble cause. I am op�mis�c that such an ini�a�ves by the Badminton Associa�on of India and its affiliated members would inspire many other sports federa�on /organiza�on too in �mes to come.

I also seek and look forward to valuable sugges�on in this regards.

(Dr.Akhilesh Das Gupta)President‐Badminton Associa�on of India.

BLOOD DONATION- A NEW INITIATIVE BY BAI

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List of Donor

Pulilla Gopichand Chief Coach

Badminton Indian Team

Girish Natu Associate Vice President

BAI

Gaurav Khanna Technical Coordinator

Apinder Sabharwal BWF Umpire - INDIA

Agha Sakir Husain BAC Umpire - INDIA

Mrs H S Dinpuii (Mami) Announcer - BAI

Deepak Thapa BAC Umpire - NEPAL

Siya Dutt India Coach Coach

Parvez Hasan National Referee - INDIA

Ajendra Rai BAC Umpire - INDIA

Chandrak Shukla BWF Live Streaming

Shamim Hasan BAC Umpire - Bangladesh

Maduranga Kasun BAC Umpire- Srilanka

Ajay Singh National Grade-I Umpire

Rajiv Rai National Umpire

Sanjay Srivastava National Umpire

Ravinder Singh Cheif Coach - UPBA

Praveen Raj Match Control-UPBA & BAI

Abhijeet Yadav BAI - Office Secy.

Abhishek Kumar State Umpire

Jyoti Rajput National Umpire

Bishvajeet Ghosh Match Control

Manoj Yadav Match Control & Live Scorer

Trilok Shukla National Umpire

Ajit Singh National Umpire

Mahaveer Meena Technology

Harish Tewari Match Control

Chandra Kant Sharma National Umpire

Ram Kumar Editor Dastak Times

Aditya Srivastava Voice of Lucknow

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Sudhir Kumar GuptaTechnical Official

Anoushka A ParikhIndian Player

Sanjay Gagneja Business Man

Aviral Garg Capital First Ltd

Pratyusha Awasthi Kanpur

Pawan Kumar Badminton Coach-KD Singh

Pawan Kumar Line Judge

Anees Kowsal Indian Player

Bhaskar Verma Media

Amit Kumar Ex Badminton Player

Aman Singh Vishen Badminton Player

Nishant Pandey Media

Ayan Khan Badminton Player

Ranjeet Sinha Business Man

Ashad Khan Business Man

Rajat Singh Line Judge - UPBA

D. B.Thapa Ex National Player

Wahib Ahmad Business Man

Nandi Ravat Line Judge

Vishal Bajpai Business Man

Rahul Kanuajiya Physical Edu. Teacher

Tausif Ansari Badminton Player

Ashutosh Satyam Jha Physical Edu. Teacher

Rajat Mishra Office Assistant - UPBA

Karunesh MishraBusiness Man

Ravi Pratap Anand Badminton Coach

Asif Ahmed Badminton Coach

Manish Tiwari Out Sider

Ashok SrivastavaOffice Assistant- UPBA

Vivek GuptaAccountant - UPBA

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Amber Shukla Out Sider

Atul KumarGovernment Job

Qamar Khalil AnsariEx. Badminton Player

Sahil Out Sider

Mukul ThapaEx. Badminton Player

Shekhar SharmaOut Sider

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Wonderful Initative by President BAI .Noble cause and should be an inspiration for others to follow.Best Wishes and congratulations to the entire group. P Gopichand ( Chief Coach Indian Team )

Donate Blood –Save Life .

A very thoughtful sta�/Initiative taken by BAI.

Congratulation and M�ivation to many.

Alak Nanda Ashok ( Jt. Secretary BAI )

I think that it is a great imitative taken by the Badminton Association of India. It is wonderful to see that BAI is supporting such a good cause

and bringing about awareness on the important of blood donating.

Ashiwini Ponnapa ( Indian Player )

The gift of blood is the gift of life. Donate & save lives. Blood Donation is the most valued service to mankind. Nothing is comparable to the preciousness of human blood.

BAI has taken a very great step. I support this good cause.

BWF Comment: We are very Supportive of BAI and BBD UP Badminton Academy in undertaking the blood donation camp in conjunction with the Syed Modi Badminton

Championship 2017. This initiative is a good example of how tournament can contribute to their local community in an important way.

Matt Judson ( BWF )

Sikki Reddy (Indian Player )

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The gift of blood is the gift of life. This very good initiative taken by the Badminton Team .

SHAMIM HASAN (BANGLADESH) UMPIRE

Heartiest congratulation for grand initiative taken by BAI to save the humanity to save

lives. Its first Sports Association who come far wand to donate blood and maintain the gap

between life and death.

AJENDRA RAI , BAC Umpire

I am extremely happy to convey my best wishes and congralutation to BADMINTON

ASSOCIATION OF INDIA (BAI) AND UTTAR PRADESH BADMINTON

ASSOCIATION (UPBA) with READ CROSS on organizing social health program of

blood donation . the initiation taken by Badminton fraternity is sole model step towards

society and I am immensely grateful that I belong Badminton Family

DEEPAK THAPA (NEPAL ) UMPIRE

Blood is life . blood donation

initiatives are always a noble

cause to society . apart from

organizing blood donation

camps and awareness, one

should also have a whatsapp

group of their respective

association members ( the

technological advancement

using right ! ). Members in

this group should have all

their blood group listed in it

so that blood is available to

any / every recipient who

requires it in that region.

Over all, a if proper

precaut ions mainta ined

during the camp, such a life –

saving mechanism would and

should receive enormous

support from every aspect of

society.

MRIDU SHARMA

SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST

Organizing the blood donation camp with SYED MODI INTERNATIONAL - 2017 is a

great initiative by BAI.

Donating blood is really a NOBLE cause. All must come forward to do the same. A big

thanks to President of BAI Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta for being a source of inspiration for

other sports Association .

VIJAY DEEP SINGH, INDIAN COACH

It's a wonderful and thoughtful initiative by the

badminton Fraternity, as I personally feel

being in the medical profession that there are

not enough blood banks in INDIA where as

people in need of blood every day due to an

accident or ailment are increasing. This very

step will definitely prove to be a boon to the

medical world. Hope this initiative is

continued every year in the coming years.

DR. ANUSHREE MENON, PHYSIO

Donate bloodsave life.

A very thoughtful start

/initiative taken by BAI.

Congratulation and motivation to

many.

ALAKNANDA ASHOK

JOINT – SECRETARY BAI

This is a very good initiative by BAI, it will help

people save lives. I congratulate the whole

badminton fraternity that they come up with

such a helpful cause.

SOURABH VERMA, PLAYER

A great initiative by BAI towards humanity and

life. An appreciable effort by the badminton

fraternity through this.” DONATE BLOOD :

SAVE LIVES”

SUMANSH SIVALANKA , PHYSIO

A great initiative by BAI at the SYED MODI INTERNATIONAL -2017, organizing a blood donation camp here

itself at the tournament.

A big thanks to our president of BAI, Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta, for making this possible. Can't be proud enough for

being able to represent our association and for such an inspirational initiative taken by BADMINTON INDIA .

Hats off!!!

PRANAAV JERRY CHOPRA, PLAYER

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