Board for Control of Cricket in India BCCI has announced award-money of rupees fifteen lakhs extra as award money in addition to equal amount of match-money to each of the cricketers having played in recently concluded series with Australia where India won the series. All this is in addition to a very hefty annual salary-package of upto rupees seven crores per cricketer and life-time heavy pension after their retirement from cricket paid by BCCI.
It is absolutely unfair to create such a class-distinction in society where cricketers earning otherwise also through their costly appearance in advertisements and business-income are paid so heavily from BCCI funded through public-craze where cricket has become religion for people. There should be an upper-limit of salary-package for BCCI which may be equivalent to highest paid bureaucrat in the country.
If earning of BCCI is criterion for payment to cricketers, then priests of famous temples can also demand such hefty payments based on income of temples. Central government should ensure that BCCI funds may be utilized for public-welfare schemes in the manner income from famous Hindu temples like Tirupati are spent.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL