New Delhi: To ensure transparency and accountability in administration, the Supreme Court on Monday accepted the recommendations of Justice Lodha panel including a bar on ministers and civil servants from holding any post in the BCCI and a cap of 70 years for every post.
Referring to the board’s resistance to change, a bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Ibrahim Kalifulla said, “The truth is that resistance to change stems partly from people getting used to status quo and partly because any change is perceived to affect their vested interest in terms of loss of ego, status, power or resources. This is true particularly when the suggested change is structural or organisational which involves some threat, real or perceived, of personal loss to those involved. No wonder, therefore, that the portents of change which the recommendations made by the Lodha Committee appointed by this Court symbolises are encountering stiff resistance from several quarters interested in continuance of the status quo.”
The CJI writing the judgement pointed out that the committee came to the definite conclusion that the BCCI has been suffering from many ills that had become endemic due to the apathy and involvement of those at the helm.
