Shashank Manohar moves treasurer’s office to Mumbai

Shashank Manohar took the first step as the BCCI president and moved the office to Mumbai. (Source: Express photo by Kevin D’Souza)

EVEN before Shashank Manohar took over as BCCI president the first action he took was to move the board treasurer’s office, which is currently in two locations — Chennai and Delhi — to the headquarters in Mumbai.

BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary currently stays in Delhi and the board had hired rooms a few years ago in the city’s ITC Maurya hotel to function as the treasurer’s office. There is another office in the premises of MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. The BCCI is registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act and the Chennai office holds all the important financial documents related to the board.

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It is reliably learnt that the board will reutilize the old office at the compound of Brabourne Stadium, which is currently being used as a warehouse.”I had a meeting with BCCI president (Manohar) and we discussed how he and I can jointly execute his vision,” Chaudhary said.

“There is no point having an office in Chennai when the board treasurer is not from Chennai. Manohar made it clear that even the secretary’s office should be in Mumbai and all officebearers should fly to Mumbai each week to sign all the documents,” a BCCI official said.

In August 2014 Aditya Verma, who had played a key role in the Supreme Court removing N Srinivasan as BCCI president, had alleged that the BCCI was spending a whopping Rs 40 lakh in sprucing up the two hotel rooms.

“It is perhaps for the first time in the history of the BCCI that the treasurer is operating from different offices in India. And more surprising is that Rs 40 lakh was spent on refurbishing two rooms at a seven-star hotel in Delhi,” Verma had then said.