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Lodha committee amends IPL governing council recommendation
- Updated: September 1, 2016
The Lodha Committee has withdrawn its recommendation to the BCCI to have nominees of two franchises sit on the IPL Governing Council on a rotational basis.
The motive behind the recommendation, the Committee had noted in its report, released in January, was to bring more independent voices into the Governing Council. The BCCI, however, had objected, saying having the franchises on the governing council would lead to conflict of interest considering the panel takes influential decisions related to the teams, players and match officials.
In its seminal judgement delivered on July 18, the two-judge bench of the Supreme Court had made it binding upon the BCCI to implement virtually all the recommendations laid down by the Lodha Committee to enhance the governance structure both at the board and the state associations.
With regards to the proposal to bring in franchises on the IPL Governing Council , the court observed there was “evident conflict of interest between the nominees of the IPL franchisees on the one hand and their role as members of the Governing Council on the other”.
The Lodha Committee had proposed that the IPL Governing Council comprise nine members: …
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