Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Good move to bring BCCI under RTI


Why is Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) opposed to the introduction of National Sports (Development) BIll 2011? It is only because if all its functioning and all other national sports federations are brought under one umbrella, it would make them transparent. That at least BCCI does not like. It feels that it is government in itself on accounts of its unaccounted money flowing into its coffers constantly.
The BCCI is an opaque body of sport. It is also the richest of all sports bodies. The question here arises why is it opposed to be brought under Right to Information? When it has enormous income, why can its income not be audited by the agency of Government of India? why the audited account be not uploaded on internet to make it transparent and information of all sorts reachable to the general public under RTI.
BCCI is also the richest of all the international bodies of the game of cricket in the world. It has unaccounted money and is governed by influencial politicians and business houses. They have made it their grazing ground. Any interference by the government in its functioning is seen by it as encroachment on their self-made fundamental right to control it as according to its likening, blatantly ignoring national interest and prestige involved with it.
Presently, Union Agriculture Minister and NCP boss is the Chief of International Cricket Council (ICC) and before assuming this coveted post, he was Chairman of BCCI. Barring BCCI, all the sports bodies of the country are more or less transparent in their functioning. As other sports bodies in our country are not affluent enough, even then the politicians get attracted towards them, though completely not keeping themselves aloof. Some of the sports bodies other than cricket are still under the control of politicians and to know about them in a better way, we will not have to go very far if we look at the CWG mess under the leadership of a politician, who is presently in Tihar jail.This is the sorry state of affairs of all our bodies. All, including BCCI need to be overhauled under the competent government agencies.
So far the veteran ex-cricketers have been kept out from the decision making body and those vital positions have always been taken by politicians and corporate houses in BCCI. They have made it a money miniting machine and paid little attention on the welfare of players and promotion of the game of cricket with an eye on future. The disastrous performance of Team India in England has awakened the government of India and rightly decided to tighten screw,nuts and volts of BCCI to make it transparent and get the body freed from the hands of Czars. Government must introduce National Sports (Development) Bill 2011and cleanse the mess in BCCI as soon as possible.



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