SC alters Lodha’s BCCI proposals

SC alters Lodha’s BCCI proposals

News:

1. Recently, the Supreme Court has finalised the new Constitution for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Important facts:

2. The apex court rejected the ‘one State-one vote’ recommendation of the Justice R.M. Lodha Committee.

3. Justice Lodha Committee recommended that cricket could prosper only if the BCCI was represented by every State and UT.

4. Rejecting the Lodha Committee recommendations, the court held that:

• The Court restored full BCCI membership to three associations in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
• It includes Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarba cricket associations in the State of Maharashtra and the Baroda and Saurashtra cricket associations in the State of Gujarat.
• The court agreed that the National Cricket Club and the Cricket Club of India did not deserve to be full members in BCCI.
• The court gave Services (Sports Control Board, the Railways and the Association of Universities full membership in the BCCI.
• In case of varsities, the court described them as “a nucleus for encouraging the game of cricket among players of the college-going generation”.
• The court held that cricket administrators should undergo a “cooling off period” before contesting elections to BCCI or State associations. In this sense it supported Lodha Committee.
• Cooling-off must be accepted as a means to prevent a few individuals from regarding the administration of cricket as a personal turf.
• Justice Lodha had suggested that the cooling-off period should kick in for a cricket administrator after his every tenure of three years in office.
• The court said an administrator needs to “Cool-off” only after two consecutive terms of six years in office, whether in BCCI or a State association or a combination of both.