On the auspicious occasion of the 14th Foundation Day of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour a ‘Badminton Team Tournament’ was organized at the Badminton Court of Officer’s Club of the university on 08th August, 2023 in the series of different programmes organized throughout a week celebration. The ‘team of the students’ and the ‘team of the residents’ of Sabour campus participated in this tournament. Dr. D. R. Singh, Vice Chancellor, BAU Sabour inaugurated this tournament and enjoyed some of the matches there as well as he cheered up and supported the players. The Vice Chancellor has always reiterated the importance of organizing the sports events on regular basis. Under his guidance for the first time in BAU Sabour an “Annual Sports Calendar” has been issued for the students of the university. The Vice Chancellor has mentioned to increase the sports infrastructure and facilities and to make a provision for the sports in the budget of the university.
Students of Bihar Agricultural College, Sabour and College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Sabour namely- Manish Raj, Deepak Kumar Choudhary, Navneet, Raviraj, Aman Nisar, Aditya, Shubham, Kundan and Harsha Kumari participated in this tournament from Students Team. Whereas officials/players of the campus namely- Dr. R. B. Verma, Ashish Chourasia, Amit Kumar, Satyasai Saran Sharma, Birendra Murmu, Santosh, Neev, Sameer and Ananya Osh participate from the Residents Team. All the duties of reception team, match umpire, line judge etc. were performed successfully by the junior badminton players/ kids of the officials residing in the campus and this became the attraction of this event. The students’ team won this badminton tournament by 3-2 at close quarters and amid nail-biting performances by the players. All the Deans, Directors, senior officers, and many of the officials, residents and students were present during this tournament. Sports meets/ tournaments have been organizing regularly in the university campus in view of preparing the students/ players of the university for different sports competitions at national or state level and in view of promoting the sports spirit among the officials of the university.
