BCCI is in trouble before the Supreme Court order on the Lodha Committee recommendation. Only one month is left for the verdict. But the governing body of Indian cricket is in disarray as its state units are yet to complete their procedure that left for the last a few years.
The Delhi State Cricket Association is yet to submit the balance sheet of three years to BCCI, the Goa Cricket Association did not give tax of 19 cores for the last five years and the Assam Cricket Association did not submit the balance sheet this year and Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association is being scrutinized for embezzlement of money devoted to cricket development in the state
BCCI and its state members are in a hurry to complete everything necessary to face the Supreme Court as the apex court will give a final verdict on the Lodha Committee in the next month.
Lodha committee’s one of the recommendations is accountability of state units and audit of their accounts.
Last month the apex court asked the BCCI and its units to submit the deals of the fund allocated to state funds.
DDCA accountant Ravinder Manchanda said, “The balance sheet for 2013-14 has been signed by most of the directors, the balance sheet for 2014-15 is the statutory auditor, and we are in the process of preparing the balance sheet for 2015-16.”
It has become very difficult for them to achieve the required details that Lodha committee recommended.
Now BCCI has stopped giving any fund to DDCA. The Indian board said until DDCA is submitting the details balance sheet of the last five years they will not receive any funding from the BCCI.
BCCI is also not happy with Assam board. BCCI secretary Ajay Shirk said, “As for the Assam Cricket Association, I wanted a physical inspection and accordingly, our infrastructure committee headed by Prakash Dixit went there last week. I’m waiting for a formal report.”
Talking about the J & K board Shirke said, “About the DDCA and Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, the BCCI doesn’t have control over their internal matters. Our control is basically restricted to stopping their grants, which we already did. All these state bodies won’t be getting any grants from the BCCI until they put their houses in order.”
However, BCCI secretary said they can’t scrutinize all the misdeed of the state board.
The Lodha committee recommendation in the wake of IPL matches were fixed verdict and conflict of interest issue when N Srinivasan was the president of the board.
The Supreme Court appointed Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha to look after the match-fixing related case and asked him to come up with a recommendation to reform cricket boards in India to run with transparency.