Baghajatin Athletic Club was founded in the year 1963 with its sports wings of Football & Cricket and established as a famous organisation in Siliguri sub-division in the district of Darjeeling under West Bengal.
Sri Dipak Ghosh, IAS during his service at Siliguri had kindly adorned as Chief Patron of our Club and we got valuable guidance and assistance from him to establish our Club in the sub-division successfully.
Gradually our Club, within our means, showing sincere efforts with the help of the sport lovers of the sub-division opened different wings by conducting the events of Volley-ball, Athletics, Badminton, Table-Tennis, besides the event of Football and Cricket, successfully. So many times, our Club became the Champion in Football and Cricket in the Sub-divisional league and tournament. In the event of Athletic, we could able to retain Championship of this sub-division for a continuous period during ‘80s, ‘90s as well as major part of twentieth centuries.
We are proud that our Club had also conducted an Open Invitation Badminton Tournament in the year 1972-73 where the eminent National Players Sri Suresh Goel, Sri Ramen Ghosh, Iqbal Mahinder and during 1974-75 National & Inter-national player like Prakash Padukan, Sri Dinesh Khanna, Sri Suresh Goel, Sri Ramen Ghosh, Sri Larrie Diesa, Sri Kiran Kaushik, Iqbal Mahinder, Asif Parpia, Partha Ganguly, Smt.Tulsi Banerjee, Sri Laltu Guha, Smt. Anita Guha also took part in the tournament.
Besides, the Club also organised a Cricket Tournament in the name of promising cricket player i.e. “Prolay Memorial Open Invitation Knock-out Cricket Tournament” for the period from 1973 to 1983 continuously with a great success and most of the cricket icon of Indian National Cricket Team as well icon cricketer from West Bengal, Bihar were also took part in the tournament.
Our Club had also conducted the inter-club Table-Tennis Tournament in so many occasions and as per schedule tournament of the Bengal Table-Tennis Association & District Table-Tennis Association gloriously. We produced many Table-Tennis players who, in turn, became prosperous players in their team and individual event in District, State as well as in National levels.
In regard to cultural events, the Club had organised “Yatra Utsav” (i.e. Pala Gan), “Manna De Musical Night”, “Jesu Das Musical Night” with many other eminent singers of State & National level. We believe that the best cultural programme so organised by our Club was the great “Rabi Sankar Night”. Baghajatin Athletic Club is conducting three coaching camps where more than 600 boys & girls are enrolled. To boost up their morals because we believe that “Sport is the basic fundamental of character building and to extend the opportunity to the players of this sub-division en-mass.
Beside the above stated events, our Club also organising the 15 k.m. Road Race since 1985. Now the said race has been renamed as “All India 15 K.M. Open Invitation Road Race.” This Road Race had already been achieved its ‘Silver Jubilee’ in the year 2009. Since inception of this 15 K.M. Road Race, many celebrities of the country had kindly paid their kind visit as Guest-in-Chief and flagged off the race. The details of the celebrities are mentioned in the annexure.
Presently our Club is running with a decorated Club Room, Furnished Office Room including an Auditorium. The auditorium is being utilised for running the coaching camp of Table-Tennis and few cultural programme, meetings by the several organisation of this sub-division. The Club is being established in its own land at C.V.Raman Sarani, College Para, Siliguri-734001 in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal.
We extend our gratitude to the persons without whom, we may not be established us as the best organisation in the sub-division unless they extended their helping hand and assistance. We have also got the privilege to honour many of dignitaries of the sub-division as well as State & National level being conferred with Honorary Life Membership of our Club and among those are :-
Sri Saurav Ganguly, , S.M.H.Kirmani, Sri Irphan Pathan, Sri Gautam Deb, Hon’ble Minister, North Bengal Development, Sri Sunil Tirkey, Hon’ble Minister, Govt. of W.B., Sri Debaprasad Roy, Hon’ble M.L.A Dr. Rudranath Bhattacharjee, Hon’ble M.L.A. & Chairman, Siliguri- Jalpaiguri Development Authority, Sri Sankar Malakar, Hon’ble M.L.A. , Smt. Gangotri Dutta, Hon’ble Mayor, Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Sri Saman Pathak, Hon’ble M.P.,Rajyasabha, Sri Ashoke Bhattacharjee, Ex-Minister, Govt.of W.Bengal, Late Bikash Ghosh, Ex-Mayor, Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Munshi Nurul Islam, Ex-Mayor, Siliguri Municipal Corporation and so on.
BJAC NEWS
Our Club going to celebrate its 50th Birthday from 15th of April 2012