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Why in news?
The Supreme Court appointed a four-member Committee of Administrators to implement the Justice Lodha Committee recommendations.
What are the functions of COA?
- The COA will be led by former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai.
- The other members include historian Ramachandra Guha, MD of Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) Vikram Limaye and former India women’s captain Diana Edulji
- They will function as the new interim bosses of the BCCI.
- They will run the day-to-day administrations of the cricket body till Lodha reforms are fully implemented and elections held.
- The purpose of COA is to implement the terms of the Justice Lodha Committee report and the Supreme Court judgement.
- The Board will have to adopt the MoA and Rules and Regulations as specified in the Lodha panel’s report.
- The State and member associations will need to amend their Constitutions/By-laws suitably.
- The current BCCI CEO Rahul Johri was ordered to submit a report to the new committee detailing the level of compliance achieved by the BCCI and its members in adopting the Lodha recommendations.
- The full members are against a number of aspects of the recommendations like the term and tenure of elected office bearers, restrictions on eligibility, the formation of player associations, replacing the working committee with an apex council, reconstituting the selection committee and empowering the CEO.
