Committees

Advisory & Finance Committee:

Scope: Raise the finances for the federation, advice the federation on the budget and expenditure on different heads.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Sarthak Behuria	Chairman
2	Maneesh Bahuguna	Member
3	S Sunderashan	Member
4	Kishen Goyal	Member
5	Kawaljit Singh	Member

Disciplinary and Ethics Committee:

Scope: Advice federation on the code and conduct of players, directors and other technical staff and take immediate action on offenders.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	S. Sundareshan	Chairman
2	Maneesh Bahuguna	Member
3	Devendranath	Member
4	Sarthak Behuria	Member
5	Hemant Pande	Secretary ([email protected])

BFI Technical Development Committee :

Scope: Advice federation on procedure for selection process, system policies,  bidding Systems suitable for events in India, Code and conduct for directors to implement and administer bidding methods, education to directors for proceeding during the event.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Sunit Chokshi	Chairman
2	Sumit Mukherjee	Member
3	R Venkatesh	Member
4	Anil Padhye	Member
5	TC Pant	Secretary [email protected]

Indian Team selection Committee:

“It was unanimously resolved that any  team selected by the BFI to represent India at international events shall comprise only of players who are Indian passport holders. Only such players shall be eligible to participate in selection trials conducted by the Federation to select the team for any such international events . This shall be the official policy of the Federation.”

Scope:

• Study, approve and endorse the selection of players to represent India recommended through the procedures laid down by the technical development committee.
• Advice federation on selection of Indian teams representing the country.
• Select Indian teams

All events:

Sr. No.	Name	Rank	Designation
1	S Sunderashan	Senior Master	Chairman
2	Anand KS Samant	Grand Master	Member
3	To be co opted
4	To be co opted
5	To be co opted

Directors Accreditation Committee:

Scope: Advice federation on appointments of directors, up gradation and promotion methods, Code and conduct for directors, educate directors for proceeding during the event.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	MRG Apparao	Chairman
2	Sudhir Aggarwal	Co - Chairman
3	R Venkatesh	Member
4	T.C.Pant	Member

 

Event format and Conditions of Contest (COC) Committee:

Scope: Advice federation on formats suitable for events in India, Create events and general conditions of contest, SCOC and revise the BFI Handbook to the existing bridge environment in India.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	T.C.Pant	Chairman
2	Sudhir Agarwal	Member
5	MBV Subrahmanyam	Member

Junior Development Committee:

Scope: Advice federation on junior development, promotion, selection etc.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Kishen Goyal	Chairman
2	Maneesh Bahuguna	Member
3	Hemant Pande	Secretary ([email protected])

Women & Girls Development Committee:

Scope: Advice federation on Women development, promotion, etc.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Kawaljit Singh	Chairman
2	Hema Deora	Member
3	Srihari Varghese	Member
4	TC Pant	Secretary ([email protected])
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Media and Publicity:

Scope: Create infrastructure to spread the awareness of the game in general masses. Involve media, give publicity, etc.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Anand KS Samant	Chairman
2	Subir Roy	Member
3	Anil Padhye	Member
4	Debashish Ray	Member
5	Hemant Pande	Member

Education Promotion and Teaching:

Scope: Create infrastructure, Syllabus, propagate to schools and colleges.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Anand KS Samant	Chairman
2	Anil Padhye	Member
3	Vinay Desai	Member
4	R Venkatesh	Member
5	Debasish Ray	Member
6	Kishan Goyal	Member