Visualise a former decathlete chairing the assembly of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) choice assembly. Now, think about a former secretary of the Badminton Association of India attending this assembly as an observer. If it seems opposite to motive or widespread sense, it certainly is.
Quite shockingly, all of the above is true within the case of the Table Tennis Federation of India’s new choice committee that meets to decide on the Indian squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games on Monday.
Delhi-based former decathlete Surinder Dev Mudgil is the chairman and ex-shuttler Anup Narang, the observer. Mudgil can also be one of many three members of the Delhi High Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) that took over from the suspended office-bearers of the TTFI on Feb. 18.
In truth, he’s additionally the chairman of the junior choice committee. For the report, former gamers S. Ramaswamy, N.R. Indu, Rajat Kathuria and Archana Viswanath got here into the committee that beforehand included Arjuna Awardees Manjit Dua, Mantu Ghosh and Dronacharya Awardee Sandeep Gupta.
Significantly, in its judgement of Feb. 11, 2022, the court docket stated, “A person appointed as the National coach by such federation cannot and ought not to be permitted to simultaneously run his personal academy. A conflict of this nature has to be avoided. Our sportspersons surely deserve better.”
With this being the directive, the CoA’s determination to ship famous coach S. Raman as coach/supervisor of the Indian groups to Commonwealth Games has come below scrutiny.
Raman, coach of G. Sathiyan, runs the Raman TT High Performance Centre in Chennai and therefore the CoA’s determination seems in direct battle with the above statement of the court docket.
Another attention-grabbing level to notice is, that the annual honorarium of the three members of the CoA and the supervisor, as mounted by the court docket, is greater than the entire prize-money at stake throughout the 2021-22 home season.
As per the court docket’s directive, the CoA is entitled to ₹5 lakh, together with ₹3 lakh to the chairperson, per thirty days. In addition, the supervisor’s remuneration is mounted at ₹50,000 per thirty days. This takes the entire expenditure to ₹66 lakh per yr.
In comparability, the prize-money for the 2021-22 season, unfold over 4 rating tournaments and three National championships, involves round ₹55 lakh!
No marvel, the nation’s TT fraternity is perplexed, like by no means earlier than.
Source: www.thehindu.com
