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All India Carrom Federation or Carrom Federation

Sport	Carrom
Jurisdiction	India
Abbreviation	AICF
Founded	19th century
Affiliation	International Carrom Federation
Regional affiliation	Asian Carrom Federation
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
President	Rakibul Hussain
Vice president(s)	PS Bacher, Gurinder Singh, Vijay Kumar
Secretary	Mrs Bharti Narayan

The All India Carrom Federation, aka AICF aka Carrom Federation, is India's national sport federation for the indigenous game of carrom, sanctioning six to seven national-level tournaments per year. It is India's representative body in the International Carrom Federation. The AICF has 15 regional and 28 state subnational affiliate institutions, the largest of which is the Maharashtra Carrom Association, further subdivided into local organisations.

As of 2007, the federation's president is Rakibul Hussain and its general secretary is Bharti Narayan. Recent national champions include R. M. Shankra, Ravinder Goud and A. Maria Irudayam.

History

The state associations as its member. Shri C. Cunnaiah of Tamil Nadu was the General Secretary and Shri Hedvekar of Maharashtra was elected as its President. It got itself registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 at Madras on 7 July 1977. The Federation was recognized by the Sports Council of India on 26 October 1970. It became the member of the International Carrom Federation on 15 October 1988 and played a pivotal role in the formation of the International Federation. In 1991, the Government of India included the game of carrom in its list for the purpose of recruitment under sports quota in Government offices/ organizations. The Asian Carrom Confederation became affiliated with the AICF in September 1995.

The All-India Carrom Federation and the game of carrom was recognizedCategory:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]} by the Indian Olympic Association on 26 October 1997. The game of carrom was also recognized by the School Games Federation of India in 1996.

The organisation at present has 31 Indian state/UTCategory:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]} associations and 15 Institutions as its affiliates. The Working Committee of the Federation is elected for a term of four years. The last elections to the Federation were held in August 2003 at Goa. AICF regularly conducts national championships for sub-junior, junior, and senior (older adult) divisions. It also conducts institutional national championships.Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]}, the All-India Federation Cup, and various other all-India ranking and prize-money tournaments every year. It has so far conducted 96 national championships for sub-junior, junior and senior players, and has introduced cadet (under 12 years of age) and youth (under 21 years of age) national championships.Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]}

The Federation has also made bilateral arrangements with various countries for organizing "Test Series"Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]} competitions. India and Sri Lanka are playing Test Series on regular basis. The Federation hosted two World Championships in Delhi: the 1st World Carrom Championship in 1991 and the 3rd World Carrom Championship in 2000.Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]}

Officials

• President: Rakibul Hussain, Member of Parliament, Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency
• Sr Vice President: Neeraj Kumar Sampathy (Andhra)
• Vice-Presidents: PS Bacher (Maharashtra), Gurinder Singh (Punjab), Vijay Kumar (Chhattisgarh)
• General Secretary: Bharti Narayan (Delhi)
• Treasurer: Madan Raj (Telangana State Carrom Association)
• Joint Secretaries: North Zone – Adil Rashid Shah(Jammu & Kashmir); South Zone – Md Asadullah Ansari (Karnataka); West Zone – Vrajesh Jindal (Gujarat); North East – Fardi Nand Nongkynrih(Meghalaya), East Zone – Dibendu Simlai (Weat Bengal)

All India Panel Umpires

1. S. K. Abdul Jaleel, Andhra
2. S.K. Ajmatullah, Andhra
3. K. Ramesh, Andhra
4. T. Srinivasa Rao, Andhra
5. D.S.R. Murthy, Andhra
6. S.Madhusudanarao, Andhra
7. Rana Sharma, Assam
8. Prasanta Neog, Assam
9. Pinto Mukherjee, Bengal
10. Debabrata Ghoshal, Bengal
11. Hussain Irshad, Bihar
12. Rajneesh Sinha, Bihar
13. Sanmir Verenkar, Goa
14. Dinanath, Goa
15. Ms. Nirmala Mahant, Gujarat
16. Ms Kamna Yadav, Haryana
17. J.S. Saroha, Haryana
18. Shashwat, Haryana
19. Zaheeruddin Khan, Hyderabad
20. Srinivasa Rao, Hyderabad
21. S. Shobhanraj, Hyderabad
22. Karoda Singh, Hyderabad
23. Kumar Ajay, Jharkhand
24. H. Shivaji Rao, Karnataka
25. G. Jayakumar, Karnataka
26. B. Rama, Karnataka
27. B.C. Krishna Swamy, Karnataka
28. Dutta Salagare, Maharashtra
29. Shekhar S Chavan, Maharashtra
30. Ramesh S Chavan, Maharashtra
31. Ketan Chikale, Maharashtra
32. Suhas Karbhari, Maharashtra
33. Ashish Bagkar, Maharashtra
34. S K Abdula, Orissa
35. Probodh Patnaik, Orissa
36. R. Srinivasan, Tamil Nadu
37. G. Jayakumar, Tamil Nadu
38. A.K. Asthana, U.P
39. Ajay Kumar Sharma, U.P
40. Mukund Nagpurkar, Maharashtra
41. Ramteke, Maharashtra
42. C. Senthamizh Kumaran, Puducherry
43. I. Ilansezhiyan, Puducherry
44. Arjun Kumar Yadav, Chandigarh

State/regional associations

Institutional members

• Banks Sports Board
• Life Insurance Corporation of India Sports Board
• Reserve Bank of India sports board
• Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
• All India Electricity Sports Board
• BSNL Sports board & Cultural Board
• Central Civil Services Cultural & Sports Control Board
• Defense Accounts Sports Control Board
• Indian Accounts & Audit Dept. Sports Board
• Indian Medical Association Sports Board
• ISRO sports & Recreation Club
• Major Ports Sports Control Board
• Postal Sports Control Board
• United India Sports & Cultural Council

References

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070813125050/http://sportal.nic.in/index.asp%7B%7BClarify%7Cdate%3DFebruary 2008}}
• Punjab State Carrom Association
• Souvenir 2004, AICF, New DelhiCategory:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2008^{[clarification needed]}