For the second time since March 1, the BCCI acting-secretary Amitabh Choudhary has refused to sign the appointment letter of ‘General Manager, Marketing, Communications and Digital’.
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has cleared the appointment of Priya Gupta for the post.
As per the directives of the CoA, the secretary has to sign all appointments within a reasonable time not exceeding five days, failing which the CoA may ask the BCCI CEO to sign them.
In his explanation to the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, Choudhary has said: “So far as the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee on the subject are concerned, there would be a maximum of six mangers to assist the CEO who would have expertise primarily in the streams of Operations, Finance, Technical, Compliance (legal), Human Resources and Media, and clearly, the need for Marketing Manager in an institution like BCCI was not felt to be of primary concern of the Justice Lodha Committee.”
Choudhary has pointed out flaws in the recruitment process, saying no official from the BCCI has played a role in the process of recruitment and that observations on the matter has not been received from the other two office-bearers C.K. Khanna and Anirudh Chaudhry. The acting-secretary wants the matter to be presented before the forthcoming AGM or in a Special General Meeting convened for the purpose.
