Corruption, nepotism, fraud in selection process, lack of transparency and failure to follow best practices in administration are the primary reasons hampering sports and sportspersons in the country. Indian athletes can adorn the Olympic podium proportionate to the capability of the nation only when businessmen and politicians stop with funding and leave the administration to eminent sportspersons, the Madras High Court has said.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy wrote so while dismissing a writ appeal preferred by the secretary of Tamil Nadu Olympics Association against a set of 14 directions issued by Justice R. Mahadevan with respect to administration of sports bodies. The Bench confirmed all the directions including the one that 75% of the members of every sports body, association, federation or organisation must be eminent sportspersons.
The judge had also ordered that all those members should have voting rights and that positions of president, vice-president and secretary should be held only by sportspersons. He had also made it clear that his directions would hold good until the State government comes up with a legislation to regulate sports bodies. Not finding any reason to interfere with his decision, the Bench had dismissed the appeal on April 27 and said that a detailed order would follow.
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