Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said that the Indian Cricket Board, BCCI need to be made accountable and transparent in its functioning like any other sports federation of the country. He was speaking during a felicitation function organised for the Indian archers in New Delhi. When asked whether BCCI should be brought under the purview of Right To Information Act, the Sports Minister said that as per the observation of the Supreme Court, BCCI is a public body and it is the expectation of the sports lover of the country that transparency and accountability should be there in the day-to-day affairs of all the sports federations. <br/><br/>For long the BCCI has been maintaining that it is a private entity as it does not take any funds from the government. But the Supreme Court has ruled that the BCCI is a public body and that its actions are open to judicial review, thereby providing fresh arsenal to the government to bring the cricket body under the RTI Act.

Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said that the Indian Cricket Board, BCCI need to be made accountable and transparent in its functioning like any other sports federation of the country. He was speaking during a felicitation function organised for the Indian archers in New Delhi. When asked whether BCCI should be brought under the purview of Right To Information Act, the Sports Minister said that as per the observation of the Supreme Court, BCCI is a public body and it is the expectation of the sports lover of the country that transparency and accountability should be there in the day-to-day affairs of all the sports federations. <br/><br/>For long the BCCI has been maintaining that it is a private entity as it does not take any funds from the government. But the Supreme Court has ruled that the BCCI is a public body and that its actions are open to judicial review, thereby providing fresh arsenal to the government to bring the cricket body under the RTI Act.