Law Commission wants RTI Act to be made applicable for BCCI

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has once again been questioned for arguing that it‘s a private body. In July 2016, the Supreme Court had asked the commission to recommend whether the cricket board can be brought under the RTI Act. 

Now, it is the Law Commission of India, who has been of the opinion that the Indian cricket board fell under the definition of a public authority, and has hence recommended (or urged) the centre to bring BCCI along with its constituent member cricketing associations under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

“When all other national sport federations are covered under RTI Act, why not BCCI,” the Law Commission said, according to TOI.

The world’s richest cricketing body, BCCI has currently been operating and working as a private body under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. And in case, the government agreed to the commission's recommendations and an organization under the RTI Act (i.e. classifying BCCI as a public body), it would mean that the PILs could be filed against the cricket board in Supreme or High Courts. These PILs could question every decision and every step of the BCCI.