{"id":200992,"date":"2022-08-22T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200992"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:06:56","slug":"the-problem-with-indias-sporting-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-problem-with-indias-sporting-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with India\u2019s sporting bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/strong> The post is based on an article \u201cThe problem with India\u2019s sporting bodies\u201d<\/strong> published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 22nd<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 <\/strong>Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> In recent times, the national sports administration bodies for Olympic, football, hockey and few others are in court, due to governance related challenges.<\/p>\n

History of sports\u2019 administration reforms in India <\/strong><\/h5>\n

In 2016, the Supreme Court passed a landmark ruling that agreed to the wholescale changes to the BCCI constitution that were recommended by the Justice R M Lodha committee<\/strong> for BCCI reforms.<\/p>\n

Like in cricket, the SC-handpicked Committee of Administrators (CoA) are in-charge of all major sports in the country.<\/p>\n

The courts and the CoA in-charge of football<\/strong> are of the view that the 50% of the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) executive committee should comprise \u201ceminent players\u201d as co-opted members.<\/p>\n

What are the issues in sports administration in India<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Governance of India’s national sports federations are not at par with the international standards.\u00a0This misadministration is posing threats of international bans and administrative uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Have the intentions of the court matched the implementation?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In the cricket administration, the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict<\/strong> related to BCCI reforms hasn\u2019t been fully implemented in letter or spirit. Cricket\u2019s constitutional ambiguity continues since the BCCI\u2019s plea, pointing to practical difficulties in implementing the Lodha reforms, <\/strong>i<\/em>s still pending.<\/p>\n

The view of experts and reformers that appointment of players in large no. can bring changes to the sporting governance, has proved to wrong till now. Following are some examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> The celebrated French footballer Michel Platini was jailed recently for a financial fraud he committed as FIFA vice president.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Despite the appointment of charismatic former Indian player<\/strong> Saurav Ganguli as the president of BCCI, cricket governance has not changed much.<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> The players haven\u2019t been able to make improvements as they remain vulnerable to temptations and lack resolve to change the old system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201cThe problem with India\u2019s sporting bodies\u201d published in the Indian Express on 22nd August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. News: In recent times, the national sports administration bodies for Olympic,… Continue reading The problem with India\u2019s sporting bodies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-200992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704799713},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}