State of Administrative Reforms by Supreme Court: Whether Long-Term or not?

Arjun J Chaudhury

The latest in administrative-reforms of sports governing body, the BCCI, is being carried out by the Supreme Court of India who are expected to name the Group of BCCI-Administrators with key enforcement-powers in January 2017 depending on when the court listing is before the Hon’ble Court which appears to be earlier rather than later. Typically, when such administrative-reforms are carried-out by any such authority, whether judicial or executive, then a senior-jurist is named along with senior auditor who has extensive experience in identifying, and taking time-action against fraudulent risk in preparation & presentation of financial statements by embezzling office-bearers who seek to defraud stake-holders that includes the public and government authorities through multiple-means of deceptions. The third such administrative-member also includes Senior-Sportsman with administrative-experience and does not find ways & means to ‘not’ comply with government-directives, especially Court-Orders that seek relevant-information on Conduct, which has been the case with politicians who behave as if they are above the law.

Already, contempt of court action against those individuals who have behaved in contemptuous-manner before the Hon’ble Court are being initiated that includes Act of Perjury for suppression of material-facts, making false statements in order to delay court proceedings and mislead the Hon’ble Court has been taken judicial cognizance of. Ideally such judicial cognizance of Wrongs should also be taken note by Election-Commission of India which is empowered to debar individuals and groups from contesting in politics. It is logical to infer that wrongs found to be committed by such individuals at or on behalf of BCCI may have been replicated in their additional-capacity as political representatives of their constituencies. 

The principal-success of such administrative reforms will lie in removing conflicts of interests that affect administration of State & Local-Bodies whose principle-responsibility is to develop the Sport at the grass-root level and commercial businesses that drive revenue from Broadcasting-Rights, and other IPRs because if that is not the case, then it has the tendency to openly-discriminate against the meritorious who are ‘not’ connected while rewarding the undeserving U/the spoils system of sharing proceeds of fraud. Incidentally, the reforms against the spoils system in the west and east led to the creation of bureaucracy as we know of it today with greater transparency & accountability….