Dehradun-Hardik Raghubanshi ( Age 11 years) Currently studying in Class 5th in Ann Mary School. Hardik is the first child of Uttarakhand and the youngest player in India who has been selected by the basketball federation of India by the trial process in Chennai. Now, BFI will take all his study and basketball training responsibilities at Corvuss American Academy | First International Residential School in India, situated in Maharashtra. His father Manish Raghubanshi, who is a basketball coach in Tulas International School and also in the ONGC Basket ball club. Manish trained his son himself. Hardik’s both parents, Manish and Roma Raghubanshi, are an ex national player of basketball.
The school fee of the said institute is Rs 18.5 lack, which will be bear by BFI. From all over India total 25 boy and 25 girls have been selected by BFI, and in all of them, Hardik is the youngest star.