Don't pat the BCCI's back just yet
Acts made behind closed doors have been rectified to alter the brand image of the board, but are they really the problems that need answers?
12-Nov-2015
Suresh Menon, writing for the Hindu, describes the reasons for the recent changes incorporated by the BCCI and explains why these "reforms" should not be mistaken for solutions.
The BCCI is attempting to give the impression of doing good while carrying on as before. President Shashank Manohar, more media-friendly than his predecessor N. Srinivasan, has countered perceptions of conflict of interest with perceptions of solutions. Perhaps the board's legal team will come out with air-tight solutions over the next couple of months. But it is too early to send out for the champagne.
However tempting it is to see the recent moves by the Board of Control for Cricket in India as "reforms", the fact remains that these are "compromises". The aim was to change the perception of the board in the public's mind and earn some brownie points ahead of the Justice Lodha Committee report (due next month), which is expected to talk reform.
Most of these reforms have a connection to a case of conflict of interest. But what exactly is it? G Viswanath throws some light on the issues of conflict of interest and elucidates the related grey areas in his column for the Hindu.
There are conflicting opinions on the conflict of interest rule that's in focus now following the Supreme Court ruling on former BCCI president N. Srinivasan. The news breaking on the grapevine is Shivlal Yadav's views to the Justice Lodha committee that office-bearers and committee members of affiliated associations should not be allowed to run academies because parents are influenced to go to the academies run by administrators.