India, Aug. 5 -- More immigration counters, sufficient number of practice courts, smoother traffic, blocking hotel rooms, setting up the competition venue, implementing a new scoring system - these are some of the pointers that will keep the Badminton Association of India (BAI) and Badminton World Federation (BWF) occupied as Guwahati gets ready to host the World Junior Championships from October 13-19.

This will be the second time India will host the event after the 2008 edition in Pune where Saina Nehwal was crowned the girls' singles champion - the only Indian to achieve the feat.

"We are fulfilling all the requirements of BWF. Roughly 600-700 players and officials will come to Guwahati. 39 teams (federations) have already confirmed ...