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BUKSS (Barak Valley, Assam, India)

BUKSS is Barak Valley Sports Journalists' Association. In Bengali, it is Barak Upatyaka Krira Sangbadik Sangstha (BUKSS) (বরাক উপত্যকা ক্রীড়া সাংবাদিক সংস্থা ).This association was established in 1997 and its Headquarter is in Silchar, Assam. The association completed its 20 years of formation in 2017. There are three separate District units of BUKSS viz. Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi District units under the central committee of The Association. Annual Prize Giving ceremony for the players and sports organizers is one of the main activities of BUKSS. They are also organising annual media cricket sicnce 2013. Dainik Jugasankha Group have won all the five tournaments till 2017. Other Prominent teams participated in the Media Cricket Tournament are--- BVEMA, BTN-Prantajyoti RC,Nababarta Prasanga, Janakantha, Samayik Prasanga, Silchar Media XI, Hailakandi Press Club and Karimganj Media XI. BUKSS cricket team first participated in All Assam Media Cricket Tournament in Guwahati in the year 2015 with the initiative of the then GS Md. Taz Uddin. The team reached in the semifinal. In next year (2016) again they participated in the Media Cricket Tournament. In 2017, Team BUKSS crated history by participating in the All Assam Media Futsal Tournament organised by Assam Media Sports Journalist' Association in Guwahati. Moreover, the team emarged champion in the Tournament. This was the first ever futsal team from Barak Valley which took part in a competition.Late Sanjiv Chandra, the then VP of BUKSS, took the initiative to sent the team. He was also the captain of the team. Mr. Chandra died on 26th September 2017. In 2018, BUKSS changed the format of Media Cricket Tournament. Sponsor-based teams were participated in the tournament. Online scoring system was applied in the tournament via cricheroes.com apps. It got tremendous response from cricket lovers. The second match of the tournament was completed under floodlight of SM Dev Stadium on 19th January 2018. Shiv Durga Media Panthers team emarged champion this year. In the final match, they defeated Aabeg News Rockers by 10 Wicket.

In 2017, BUKSS celebrated 20 years of its formation. Various programs were organised on this occasion. They took part in 'Memories Meet Milestones' program organised by TT Club, Udharbond on 30th December 2017 along with six other Sports Organisations of Barak Valley. BUKSS organised Sports Journalists'Workshop in this year in collaboration with Assam Sports Journalists' Association (ASJA). There were three separate seminars in three district headquarters of the valley. Budding journalists and interested persons along with college students attended the seminars. Apart from organizing Media Sports events, BUKSS has also organized Sports quiz competitions in the time of World Cup events and other occasions. In 2018, BUKSS participated in North East Media Sports Festival in Guwahati. In March 2018, BUKSS played two friendly matches. One against Veteran Football Club on 23rd March, and the other against Silchar Veteran Cricketers' Club. Not to mention that the first one was Football match and the second one was Cricket Match. Football Club organised International Veteran Football tournament, Cricketers' club celebrated their first anniversary. They lost the football match by 0-2 but won the cricket match by 1 wicket. BUKSS always tries to promote new sports in Barak Valley of Assam. They organized one km distance swimming at Badarpur in 2018. In 2019, a 500 metre swimming competition was organized in the same vanue. In March 2019, BUKSS participated in the Football event of North-East Sports Festival, organised by Assam Sports Journalists Association in Guwahati. They Lost in the semifinal of the event. As the part of social activity, BUKSS members visited different old age homes in time to time. In 2020, during COVID19 pandemic, BUKSS organized a series of live programmes for the sports lovers. Prominent sportspersons of Assam took part in the porgrammes.