The cricket crazy country witnessed enough in the recent past as the chairman of the Supreme Court-led Committee of Administrators (COA) Vinod Rai stated the Lodha Panel Reforms will be implemented in the next five months in country’s cricket governing body Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
“We are there to ensure the Lodha Committee reforms are implemented in full. We would want to ensure the structure and system, as decided by the court, are put into place at the earliest,” the former Comptroller and Auditor General Rai was quoted as saying by PTI.
The COA will be monitoring the board’s happenings until the election takes place following the implementation of all the reforms recommended by the apex body.
“It should not be a long process and the committee will be able to complete all this in about four to five months at the most,” Rai said.
In January, the apex court had appointed the four-member committee to prepare the complete report while the recommendations are implemented within the BCCI and the State Board of Cricket Association.
“As far as BCCI is concerned, we will create a structure, we will create an accounting format, and we will ensure that certain systems are put in place by which governance of the BCCI in the future becomes smooth and as per the diktats of the report of the Lodha committee,” Rai added.
Rai has further reiterated that the parameters have been set in the reforms which include the state and district level associations and clubs before stating there would be no change in the schedule in the calendar year.
“We are in the process of examining to what extent the state associations have fulfilled the reform parameters and what is the undertaking they have given,” Rai concluded.
Rai was earlier appointed as the head of the COA which included three members as cricket historian Ramachandra Guha, former Indian women’s team skipper Diana Edulji and Managing Director of Infrastructure Development and Finance Company Vikram Limaye to supervise and manage the board’s affairs alongside its CEO Rahul Johri.