Cabinet take up s new sports bill

The Cabinet will take up a new Sports Bill on Tuesday, the proposed law will bring the richest sport body in the country - the Board of Control for cricket (BCCI) under government control.
India won the world cup 2011 - a feat which ensured that the BCCI continues to rake in billions of dollars, making it the richest sports body in the world. But it's also a body which remains covered in layers of non transparency, citing its charter, which makes it a private autonomous body. Now a new Sports Bill which is going to be brought up before the cabinet today aims to fix the problem.
the Bill will make it mandatory for all cricket associations including the BCCI to adhere to those norms which have been marked out for other Olympic sports.
Random Doping tests, so far resisted by cricketers could be mandatory if the Bill is accepted.
Cricketing bodies will also have to submit details of their expenditure and earnings if the Bill becomes a law.
"This Bill is comprehensive, as I have always been saying. It includes the tenure norms, age norms, and also, all these sports federations must be considered as public authorities under the Right to Information Act. Besides, this draft Bill as we had circulated earlier, also has provision of Ombudsman," said Ajay Maken, Sports Minister.
But it is the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) officials who could be hurt the most by provisions of this Bill - VK Malhotra and Jagdish Tytler who have already served multiple terms as heads of sporting federations for more than a decade.
The Bill fixes the maximum terms for any sports official in any discipline at three. An upper age limit of 70 years has been fixed as well.
It is also proposing a reservation of 25 per cent to former sportsmen in associations of that particular sport.
There is a big question mark though on whether this Bill will actually be accepted to the political class. During the deliberations, many leaders who double up as sports officials took a position against the Bill. The final decision could well be upto the Prime Minister himself.