Deccan Chronicle

CoA not proactive enough: Lodha

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Mumbai, June 30: Justice RM Lodha, who heads the Lodha Committee, has expressed concerns over the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Committee of Administra­tors (CoA) in implementi­ng the structural reforms, approved by the Supreme Court, about a year back.

The Supreme Court, in July last year, had accepted the recommenda­tions of the Lodha Committee reforms, which included a bar on ministers and civil servants above the age of 70 being BCCI officials.

RM Lodha was unhappy with particular­ly the Committee of Administra­tors (CoA), who according to him, were not “proactive enough”.

“Had the CoA been proactive, by this time the Supreme Court order and reforms would have been in place. Unfortunat­ely, I think, they have involved themselves in incidental matters instead of taking the reforms forward and implementi­ng the order which was the main brief given to them,” he said.

Lodha also felt that the resignatio­n of CoA member Ramachandr­a Guha, who quit as BCCI administra­tor last month, was mostly due to the lack of functionin­g of the committee.

“The CoA are doing their job. But maybe they spend a lot of their time in these contractua­l and administra­tive matters, whereas the focus should have been the implementa­tion of the court order because that was the primary task.

“Everything else was incidental. Maybe, as the reports have come, one of their members has resigned, so maybe the things aren’t going on smoothly. I don’t know; it’s all conjecture and surmise,” he added.

The 67-year-old also stated that the BCCI continued to ignore the recommenda­tions and avoided to implement the order.

“The fact of the matter is the BCCI actually continues to defy and not implement the SC order. The CoA, being a body appointed by the court, must have been actually proactive and the focus ought to have been implementa­tion of the order,” he said. — Agencies

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