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Jharkhand to get badminton academy next month

By PTI

Jamshedpur, Aug 29: The Jharkhand Badminton Association (JBA) today announced the launch of first professional academy for coaching in the state on the National Sports Day.

The academy will start functioning from next month, JBA Secretary K Prabhakar Rao told reporters here.

Members of India's bronze medal winning women's badminton team at Asian Games 2014

The coaching will be conducted by reputed shuttler Sachin Kumar Rana, one of the five coaches appointed under National coach Pullela Gopichand to train Indian team for the Rio Olympics, he said.

The Jharkhand badminton team could not perform well at the national level in the last five years owing to lack of professional approach, he said.

PTI

Story first published: Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 10:12 [IST]
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