Lodha Panel wants former Home Secretary GK Pillai to be appointed as BCCI's observer
The Lodha Committee has in its latest report reiterated that office bearers of the Cricket Board BCCI should be sacked and has suggested that former home secretary GK Pillai be appointed as an observer to supervise the board's administration.
It has said Mr Pillai as observer should conduct the crucial task of appointing auditors for awarding BCCI contracts like that for media rights for future editions of the Indian Premier League or IPL.
The committee, which was appointed by the Supreme Court after a betting scandal in the IPL to suggest reforms in the running of the BCCI, has been at loggerheads with the board, which is the world's richest cricket body.
The BCCI says it will be impossible to implement all the panel's proposals, which include an age and tenure cap for top officials and a one-state-one-vote.
The court had last month given BCCI president Anurag Thakur and the 13 state associations in the country till December 3 to implement the reforms proposed by the Lodha Committee, putting on hold disbursal of funds to state associations till they promised to do that.