BCCI Should Be Coming Under The Act Of RTI: Patiala

Director General Jiji Thomson, the Sports Authority of India (SAI), advocated the need to bring BCCI under the purview of the RTI act. He added thatdue to spot-fixing scandal in IPL 6, the spirit of the game suffered. Thomson also added that he does not want this match fixing saga to continue any more as it can easily spoil the beauty of the game of cricket.

Indian cricket was swayed by the spot-fixing scandal, where 3 well-known cricketers have been arrested due to their involvement, including India international S Sreesanth and BCCI president N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who is supposed to be the Principal of famous IPL team named Chennai Super Kings.

It also led to Srinivasanto “step aside” as BCCI president.This in turn brought- former chief Jagmohan Dalmiyaas who is the head of a four-member “interim arrangement” to run the Board.
Meanwhile, it was said by Thomson that SAI needed to set up a system monitoring the activities of coach’s andnational campers at the training centers across the country.

He was referring to the case of Beijing Olympic medalist- boxer Vijender Singh who went on an extended leave from the National camp at NIS Patiala following a drug scandal without informing the concerned officials.

While addressing this topic Mr. Thomson also added that a scientific society named C-DAC will be checking all the whereabouts regarding this issue and will take the final call. And then he also stated that Vijender Singh may have joined the NIS of Patiala. But then he may also have applied for his joining of Patiala camp.

Citing personal reasons, Vijender was hesitant to travel for the national camp at the NIS Patiala.
Priming on government’s decision to set up a Centre of Excellence for sports medicine and sports coaching, Thomson also stated that the project has not yet been ready but then reports will be out very soon and may be within the month of June they will cover all the issues related to this topic. And then about December this year they will eventually get the complete official report regarding this issue.