According to a report in DNA, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been paying former senior national selectors Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe despite sacked from the committee in January.
With the ongoing tussle between the Committee of Administrators (CoA) and BCCI officials refusing to end, Khoda and Paranjpe are getting paid according to their contract till date. They will continue to be paid as well.
Even former junior selectors Ashish Kapoor and Amit Sharma are being paid in the absence of a termination letter issued to them by the BCCI. A senior selector gets paid Rs 60 lakh per year while a junior selector gets paid Rs 40 lakh. Paranjpe and Khoda were removed for not being Test cricketers as per the requirement set by the Lodha panel.
BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry took up the matter of paying all BCCI-contracted staff as the annual AGM was getting delayed due to the ongoing hearing in the Apex court. It was then decided by CoA to clear all payments till September 2017, the month when AGM usually takes place.
“Look at the irony. Three selectors are working and getting paid while the other two, who were sacked in January itself by CoA to abide by Justice Lodha recommendation of trimming the selection panel to three from five, are being paid the same amount for doing nothing,” a senior BCCI official on Sunday was quoted as saying. “There’s no exit clause in the contract and the selectors should be compensated for the rest of their contract period.”