Junior and women selectors demand pay hike from BCCI
India’s junior and women selectors have demanded a pay hike from the BCCI. According to reports, the junior selection committee wants to be paid on par with the senior selection committee, while the women have called for a raise from Rs five lakhs to Rs 25 lakhs per year.
The women’s selection committee is currently chaired by Hemlata Kala and comprise of Anjali Pendharkar, Shashi Gupta, Lopamudra Banerjee and Sudha Shah. The committee had met BCCI president Anurag Thakur last month to discuss their pay hike.
According to a report in the Indian Express, women selectors have lamented the partial nature of the board for men and women selectors, saying “approach and work pressure” is the same.
The newspaper also said that the junior selection committee chairman Venkatesh Prasad had written to the board on this matter.
The senior selection committee members are paid Rs 60 lakh per annum while the junior selection committee members are remunerated Rs 40 lakh per annum. The committee also wants their allowances to be increased from Rs 3500 to Rs 5000 per day apart from business class travel and five-star accommodation.
“The demands by women’s selectors are wrong. You can’t compare the amount of work and pressure these men’s selectors have compared to the women’s selection committee. At the same time look at how many games they cover every year. We hardly have a few tournaments for women’s teams,” an unnamed senior BCCI official told the Indian Express.
