BFI hands honorarium payment to players, coaches, and support staff for outstanding performance

Press Release: The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) had recently announced that an honorarium will be paid to basketball players who are part of the country’s national system. Recently, the BFI distributed cheques of honorarium paid to Indian Basketball Players, Coaches and Support Staff for their outstanding performance during the months from October to ending December, 2010. The first three months of honorarium has been paid to 65 players, 7 coaches, and 10 members of support staff.

List for Honorarium

Category A

Rs.30,000/- per month per head for their outstanding performance during the last three months i.e. October to December, 2010.

Men

Jagdeep Singh (Punjab)
Yadwinder Singh (Railways)
Trideep Rai (Uttarakhand)
Vishesh Bhriguvanshi (Railways)

Women

Geethu Anna Jose(Railways)
Anitha Pau Durai (Railways)
Prashanti Singh (Delhi)
Akanksha Singh (Delhi)

Category B

Rs.20,000/- per month per head for their outstanding performance during the last three months i.e. October to December, 2010.

Men

Dishant Shah (Gujurat)
Hareesh Karoth(Tamil Nadu)
Eudrick Preira (Kerala)
Jay Ram Jat (Services)
Dinesh C.V. (Tamil Nadu)
Arjun Singh (Railways)
Bobby Singh (U.P.)
Amjyot Singh (Punjab)

Women

Raspreet Sidhu (Delhi)
Sneha Rajguru (Maharashtra)
Bharti Netam (Indian Railways)
Pratima Singh (Delhi)
Harjeet Kaur (Delhi)
Raj Priyadarshini (Tamil Nadu)
Jeena P.S. (Kerala)
Kokila (Indian Railways)

Category C

Rs.10,000/- per month per head for their outstanding performance during the last three months i.e. October to December, 2010.

Men

Ajay Pratap Singh (Chattisgarh)
Sambaji Kadam (Services)
Harpal Singh (Gujurat)
Harinder Singh Rathore (Rajasthan)
Rakesh Kumar Yadav (U.P.)
Barnet Carmel Joseph(Tamil Nadu)
Rajan Sharma (Punjab)
Jaskaran Singh (Punjab)
Shadab Khan (Railways)
Sunny Raut (M.P.)
Anant Singh (Rajasthan)
Kirti Goswami (M.P.)
Sunil Kumar Rathee(Delhi)
Shyam Sunder (Chhattisgarh)
Lovneet Singh (Punjab)
Harman Deep (Punjab)
Karan Josua (Karnataka)
B. Dinesh (Chhattisgarh)
Abhishek Singh (U.P.)
Kushmeet Singh (Punjab)
Amrit Pal Singh (Punjab)
Komal Preet (Punjab)
Pal Preet (Punjab)
Manpreet (Punjab)

Women

Smruthi Radhakrishnan (Indian Railways)
Pushpa M. (Indian Railways)
Madhu (West Bengal )
Soniya Joy (Kerala)
Reshma G. (Indian Railways)
Kruthka Lakshaman (Karnataka)
Amruta Bhuskute (Maharashtra)
Kavitha (Chhattisgarh)
Aruna Kindo (Chhattisgarh)
Sangeetha Mandal (Chhattisgarh)
Sangeet Kaur (Chhattisgrah)
Preeti Kumari (U.P.)
L. Suganya (Tamil Nadu)
Navneeta, P.U. (Karnataka)
Ashika Kuruvila (Karnataka)
Anjana, P.G. (Kerala)
Sara Vohra (Maharasthra)

Coaches

Rs.30,000/- per month per head for their valuable services rendered during the last three months i.e. October to December, 2010.

Ram Kumar
Rajinder Singh
Sat Prakash Yadav
S.K. Bhaskar
Sheeba Maggon
Prasanna Menon
Abdul Hamid Khan

Support Staff

Rs.20,000/- per month per head for their valuable services rendered during the last three months i.e. October to December, 2010.

Sudhir Rathore
Kunjul Gada
Nilesh Shah
Rajeshwar Rao
P.J. Sabestian
Zareen Zaidi
V. Senthilselvan
R.S. Gaur
Divya Singh
Sridhar

China wins double gold at Asian Games; India goes winless

Hosts China stamped their dominance over basketball in Asia after winning double gold in both the Women's and Men's tournament at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. China defeated the Republic of Korea in both divisions to clinch the title.

Nan Chen led a balanced attack for the Chinese Women on Thursday, November 25th with 17 points and 12 rebounds to overcome the Korean challenge, 70-64. All of China's starters scored in double digits as the hosts prevailed in the close game. Yeonha Beon scored a game-high 23 points in Korea's losing effort.

Women

China 70 (Nan Chen 17 pts 12 rebs, Xin Guan 14 pts, Fan Zhang 7 rebs) bt. Republic of Korea 64 (Yeonha Beon 23 pts, Jung Eun Park 14 pts, Mi Sun Lee 5 stls). Halftime Score:38-29

Japan came third in the women's competition after beating Chinese Taipei 73-61 in the bronze medal game.

In the Men's final, China sustained a close lead for the whole game and fought off Korea's comeback to win 77-71. Former NBA player Zhizhi Wang scored 20 points to lead a balanced effort for China. Donggeun Yang for Korea added 17 points for the losing team.

Men

China 77 (Zhizhi Wang 20 pts, Jinhui Ding 14 pts 8 rebs, Yue Sun 14 pts) bt. Republic of Korea 64 (Dongguen Yang 17 pts, Joo Sung Kim 15 pts, Sungmin Cho 15 pts). Halftime Score:43-37

Iran won the Men's bronze medal after beating Japan 74-66

The Indian teams did not have a successful competition after qualifying for Asian Games basketball after 28 years, as the Men and Women's teams suffered defeats in all their group stage match-ups.

The Indian Men's team had early success as the won their pre-qualification match-up against Afghanistan to enter the tournament's group stage. Trailing by eight points at half-time, a balanced effort from India's starters led to a succesful comeback victory 83-76. Jagdeep Singh led a balanced effort from the Indians with 22 points. Trideep Rai (18), Hareesh Koroth (17), and Yadwinder Singh (15) also chipped in with important contributions.

But India's five group games saw them fall to 0-5 against their opponents. Despite Hareesh Koroth's 24 points, India lost big to Qater, 97-48. Chinese Taipei played a high-scoring game against India which they won 93-66, as Jagdeep Singh again led India with 22 points. Jagdeep continued his strong play in the tough game against Iran next, scoring 24 points in a losing effort, where Iran won 78-63. Yadvinder Singh also added 17.

India had a promising start in their last two games, against the Philippines and Japan, but succumbed to late game fatigue at lost both. Philippines beat India 78-57 and Japan won 85-58.

In the Women's tournament, India were baptised by fired in their first game against a strong Chinese squad, who won big, 107-39. The Women continued to suffer in a tough draw, as their next game was against eventual semi-finalists Republic of Korea, who won 98-44. The Girls showed a much improved performance in their final game, as Geethu Anna Jose powered to 20 points and 12 rebounds against Thailand, still to lose a close game 62-54 in the tough fourth quarter.

Although the box scores might have shown a dismal performance for the Indian team, the truth was that both the Men and the Women showed glimpses of competitiveness in all their games, just to succumb to problems regarding fatigue. The Indian teams were just not fit enough to hang with Asia's best for 40 minutes a game, which led to several epic second half collapses.

But first qualification in 28 years is still a positive step up. Hopefully the influence left behind by American coaches Bill Harris and Tamika Raymond paves the way for a brighter future for the game in India.