The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s Committee of Administrators will do away with the practice of hiring International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Security Unite. It will instead use its own Anti-Corruption Unit.
With an ex-Comptroller and Auditor General leading the CoA, the BCCI has figured in the cost factor for hiring ICC’s professionals for a task which the Indian board’s own team can deliver at less than 20% of the total cost.
ICC pays $500 per day to each of their ACSU officer, who travels to India. The amount in turn is charged from the BCCI. These ACSU officers hire Indian ACU officers asAssistant anti-corruption managers. The Indians are paid approximately ₹6,500 per day.
The BCCI has thus decided to discontinue the services of Anti-Corruption Security Unit (ACSU) for the upcoming Indian Premier League and instead use their own Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), national daily Indian Express has reported.
The financial concern is stated to be the main reason. The BCCI last year had paid ₹3,01,40,779 (₹ 3 crores) to ICC for ACSU services for IPL season 2018.
“There was no logic, because we are paying 10 per cent (to India ACU officer) of what we are paying to them (ICC ACSU),” Vinod Rai, Committee of Administrators (CoA) chief has told the national daily on the pay disparity between Indian ACU and ICC’s ACSU officers.
“Why should we not hire our own people, why should we hire other people?” Rai had questioned.
ACU primarily keeps all unwanted elements away from the IPL. These ACU officers mostly are stationed in hotel lobbies and in the players and match official area during the games.
The CoA at its meeting in Delhi had decided and given to the ACU an authority to hire more officers for the two-month long IPL.
The BCCI’s three-member ACU works on a salary basis. Former BCCI ACU chief Neeraj Kumar had written a strong mail to COA about the struggles of the under-staffed ACU in covering the vast number of matches. Kumar had even accused that BCCI has “hardly any interest” in fighting corruption.
As a result, the COA had hired more officers few months ago and more places are to be filled in the coming days, states the paper.
The board, apart from hiring retired officers from Army and Police, will promote ACU officers who have been trained by the BCCI ACU in the past two years and have done matches in domestic cricket.
Rai had reportedly confirmed the move. “We have decided to discontinue ICC ACSU wing from this season onwards. We have been hiring ICC’s ACSU services for the past ten years now. Why should we not hire our own people?” the paper has quoted his as saying.
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