The High Court of Delhi feels the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), which has an image of being one of the most corrupted state board, needs overhaul changes, due to its financial irregularities and the way work is managed in the state association.
The Delhi High Court has scrapped proxy voting in the state board, which has been one of the issues in past. Bishan Singh Bedi has always been one of the prominent personalities who has stood against this voting system. Apart from that, the court has also put an age barrier on state administrators, which now doesn’t allow any of the administrators above the age of 70 to continue the office. In addition to that, the court has also announced that no administrator can continue his term in office after service of nine years and has also introduced cooling off period in between the two terms in office. The court has also asked the DDCA to amend its Article of Association (AOA).
All these recommendations have been made in accordance with the Lodha recommendations, designed by the committee headed by R.M. Lodha.
“Objections to the reforms in its governance and various aspects of functioning cannot be countenanced” and since it had taken benefit of favourable orders earlier, it cannot now say that the court has exceeded its jurisdiction.
“As far as the recommendations go, it hardly needs to be emphasised that reforms are badly needed. There appears to be no stability in certain key governance issues or even discernible norms in regard to activities such as accounts and finance, procurement through tendering, a stable selection policy for selectors and players, the terms and conditions applicable to them, etc,” the public order announced by justices S Ravindra Bhat and Deepa Sharma read after it was made public on Saturday.
The Delhi high court also batted for a permanent CEO of the state board. The court will monitor the progress of the order on April 21 to check whether the state board adheres to the recommendations or not.
Recently, the Delhi High court appointed Vikramjit Sen, a retired judge as the administrator to run the state board.