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‘Implementing reforms an opportunity rather than a challenge’
- Updated: May 22, 2016
Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke, the newly elected BCCI president and secretary, have said they see the implementation of the Lodha Committee report as an “opportunity” rather than a challenge. They said the BCCI was in favour of reforms – “a continuing process” – even though it did not agree entirely with all the recommendations, as elaborated by Thakur’s predecessor Shashank Manohar on Saturday.
“Where there is a challenge, there is opportunity,” Thakur said in his first news briefing as board president on Sunday. “It depends on how you look at the scenario – you may see it as a challenge, I see it as an opportunity that this is the time to deliver.”
On Saturday Manohar had reiterated that the main reason he stepped down as BCCI president was that he could not have implemented the Lodha Committee recommendations in full. According to Manohar, the BCCI was happy with 75% of the recommendations, but had strong reservations against a handful.
Thakur echoed the same sentiments. “We are not waiting for the judgement to come and then implement something. Whatever is possible and practical and required we are implementing it from time to time. And I said it is a continuous process and reforms will carry on.”
Shirke, who was previously a BCCI treasurer, had …
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