News :-
- The 90-year-old Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should be declared a public body.
- The board and all its member cricket associations should be brought under the Right to Information (RTI) law regime, the Law Commission of India recommended to the government.
- A private citizen should be able to move the highest court against the BCCI for any violation of his fundamental rights, the Law Commission led by former Supreme Court judge, Justice B.S. Chauhan, said in its 128-page report handed over to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
- The board’s monopolistic activities, directly and indirectly, affect the fundamental rights of citizens, players, and other functionaries.
- The Law commission said the board has been “flying under the radar of public scrutiny and encouraged an environment of opacity and non-accountability.”
Reasons to bring BCCI under RTI purview :-
The commission, which is the government’s highest law advisory body, concluded that
- The BCCI exercises ‘state-like’ powers in the regulation of cricket, and thus, comes under the definition of ‘state.’
- The BCCI virtually acts as a National Sports Federation (NSF). The commission recommended that the Ministry website should explicitly mention BCCI in the list of NSFs. This would automatically bring it within the purview of the RTI Act, the commission said.
- BCCI is a “limb of the state”, because the cricket board, as an entity, is permitted de facto by the state to represent the country at the international stage.
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