Kolkata: Vinod Rai, the head of the Supreme Court-appointed four-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) to handle the functioning of the Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI), said today in Singapore, that the implementation of the Lodha Committee recommendations would be completed within the next four to five months. “We would want to ensure the structure and system, as decided by the court, are put into place at the earliest,” Rai said.
“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 also a former Comptroller and Auditor General of India, added.
“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,” he said. The Supreme Court appointed the four-member panel, headed by Rai, in January. The three other members are historian Ramachandra Guha, Managing Director and Chief Executive of IDFC Limited Vikram Limaye, and former captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, Diana Eduljee.
The reform parameters have already been sent to the state cricket associations and other associates at district club levels. “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 said.
Some state associations have already filed affidavits on the state of implementation this week, reports PTI. Rai assured that the scheduling of matches as per the BCCI itinerary would not be affected.
“We are there to ensure the Lodha Committee reforms are implemented in full,” said Rai, adding that the court-appointed committee would be there till “the next BCCI management committee is democratically elected after the implementation of reforms.”
(With inputs from PTI)