BCCI should be answerable to all Indians through RTI: Maken

Agencies

New Delhi, 31 August 2011: A day after the proposed National Sports Bill was sent back for redrafting by the Union Cabinet, Sports Minister Ajay Maken today hit out at the BCCI saying that the Indian Cricket Board needs to be more accountable in its functioning.

 

Maken said the proposed Bill was intended to make sports bodies more transparent and efficient and was in no way an attempt to take control of these National Sports Federations.

"I wouldn’t want to say what happened in the Cabinet meeting yesterday, I just like to reiterate the sport ministry’s stand and my stand. We are in no way trying to control the sports federations or sports bodies," Maken told reporters here.

 

"We don’t intend to have our own representatives in any way in any of the managements of these sports bodies, we don’t want to direct them, whether they would like to take Ajay Maken as one of their members or some of others MPs or ministers," he said.