BCCI CUTTING DOWN EXPENDITURE SHOULD ALSO STOP PRIVY PURSES OF SUPER-RICH CRICKTERS
Bureau,Odishabarta
DELHI:Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly started cutting down expenditure in view of steep fall in its earnings after corona-spread by deciding not to renew annual contracts of eleven cricket-coaches in its premier National Cricket Academy. But the super-rich cricket body earlier during lockdown boasted that it retained its financial commitment with ultra super-rich cricketers by paying quarterly instalment of hefty annual salary package ranging from rupees one crore to rupees seven crore (rupees ten crores for coach) despite global economic slowdown.
BCCI should totally abolish policy of salaries and pensions to cricketers which are nothing but like Privy Purses of modern-era princes and kings in form of cricketers. Indian cricketers get hefty match-money, award-money apart from their heavy income from commercial advertisements. Payment of hefty salaries and pensions running upto crores of rupees per annum for cricketers and coach has created an altogether new category of super-rich persons where some of them are reportedly getting shipped imported mineral water for their daily consumption.
In case BCCI does not stop system of salaries and pensions to cricketers and coaches, then central government should take over BCCI as part of Department of Sports. Sportsman performing very well in other games have to lead miserable life because of low income and sports-bodies of their games not affording to pay so heavily like BCCI. In no case any cricketer should be paid salary and pension more than that fixed for highest paid bureaucrat of the country. BCCI must not have right to spend funds generated out of public-craze in paying heavily to cricketers.
Input;Subash
