Mayor of the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) AJM Nasiruddin will inaugurate the five-day national meet in the afternoon.
Some 318 paddlers, including 50 women from 63 teams, 47 districts, seven divisions, four each services and university teams and an education board team, will compete in the five events of the competition -- men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
CCC Mayor AJM Nasiruddin will provide the entire expenses of the meet amounting to Tk 22 lakh.
CJKS joint secretary and secretary of the tournament organising committee Aminul Islam disclosed this at a press conference on the MA Aziz Stadium premises here on Saturday.
President of Chattogram Press Club Alhaj Ali Abbas, General Secretary of Bangladesh Badminton Federation Amir Hossain Bahar, CJKS Vice-president M Hafizur Rahman and CJKS Additional General Secretary Alhaj Syed Shahabuddin Shamim were also present on the occasion.