Jharkhand’s Junior badminton champ Aadya Singh becomes 1st girl to qualify in NDA

Dhanbad, April 18: Jharkhand’s national junior badminton player Aadya Singh has qualified for National Defence  Academy (NDA).

In the NDA examination ( Navy)  Aadya Singh of Jamshedpur has got  136^th  rank  in the country and 15^th in women’s section.   She has also achieved distinction of to first girl  of  Jharkhand to qualify in prestigious  competition which opened the girls in 2022.

 Ravi Singh,  former treasurer of Jharkhand Badminton Association  and maternal uncle of Aadya Singh,  said that  though she  had been excelling  in badminton event at  state and national level from childhood, her aim was  to pursue career in  defence and medical line and finally she achieve her goal.

 Adya Singh ,resident of  Aditapur ( Jamshedpur), is famous across the Jharkhand for  her natural  talent in badminton and outstanding  performance in  state as well as  national levels competitions.

 Champion of Jharkhand

 Aadya Singh remained a dominance force in Jharkhand junior badminton till 2022 when she hanged her racket  due to political reason in state badminton.

 She was  under- 17 and under-19  singles  and  doubles girls   state champion held in Dhanbad in 2021. Later  she repeated her performance  again state championship by winning both the titles held at  Mohan Ahuja Stadium Jamshedpur in 2022.

 However in Dumka state championship Adya had to content with runners up position. She lost   singles final to  her doubles  partner Saraah Sharma of Jamshedpur. Adya Singh represented Jharkhand junior team in several national championship.

  Badminton experts of  Jharkhand said she was most  natural talent playerand would have been   reached  international  stage  had  been she continued playing badminton.  After  winning state  junior championship, Adya shifted Lucknow for preparation of NDA.