CoA approves of hike in fee of selectors
The Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) has approved a surge the fee of 30 lakhs for selectors and the chief selector's fee has been hiked by 20 lakhs. As of now, headed by MSK Prasad, the senior selection committee has Devang Gandhi and Sarandeep Singh as other members.
Back in 2007, Dilip Vengsarkar had attempted to get the selectors fairly paid for their services. Now in 2018, the Committee of Administrators has decided that the selection panel's remuneration would be increased to 90 lakhs annually as compared to 60 lakhs previously, while the chairman will receive 1 crore rather than 80 lakhs, which has been given now.
Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe had been removed from their position of selectors as the norms introduced by Lodha reforms made it mandatory for the selection committee to have only three members, having necessarily played Test cricket. The CoA has also advanced the remuneration of
Coincidentally, before the news of the hike in fees could reach the selectors, the CoA was informed that a few of the selectors had approached Amitabh Choudhary, acting secretary, desiring a hike in their fees. Considering this, Amitabh had asked Saba Karim, current General manager of cricket operations at BCCI to review the hike in fees of team India's support staff and India A coach Rahul Dravid since 2014-15. After analyzing, he advised a hike of 70% by approximation.
Headed by CAG chief Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji as the other member, CoA had increased the remuneration of BCCI umpires, curators, scores and video analysts by two times along with the fees of international and domestic cricketers.