BCCI to shift HQ to Bengaluru(New Plot of 40 Acres bought)

[sourab10forever]

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The BCCI is likely to shift its headquarters from the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to Bengaluru once the National Cricket Academy (NCA) takes shape in the next couple of years.

The BCCI has now got its own land — a huge 40-acre plot in the outskirts of the Garden City where a state of the art NCA will be built.

However, many in the top brass feel that it is an ideal scenario to shift the headquarters from its rented premises at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai as the new facility will also have five-star lodging facility.

It is also learnt that COA is open to the idea as it will also reduce the humongous hotel costs which is borne by the board whenever a board meeting is held in a five-star facility in Delhi, Mumbai or Bengaluru.

Accordingly, acting president C.K. Khanna had written a letter to all the board members seeking their suggestions so that it can be brought up at the governing body meeting.

“People are of the strong view that present administrative premises of the Board do not have adequate and appropriate office infrastructure nor there is any further scope of expansion,” Khanna wrote in his letter to the board members.

“I strongly suggest that since BCCI has acquired 40 acres of land at Bengaluru which is in the close vicinity of the airport for its most ambitious project of NCA, this whole land can be used optimally if along with NCA,” he further wrote.

It must be noted that BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary travels around 25 days a month and the bills of five-star accommodation have run into crores, which the COA had pointed out in their report.

The acting president wants all the meetings to be held at its upcoming new set-up, where the members can also put up, thereby cutting down the hotel cost. Also, a part of the premises can be rented out for commercial activities.

“BCCI also uses a part of this land to build a new state of the art headquarter.

“This plot after earmarking major part of the land for NCA on the advice of experts, may also be used for BCCI’s new office and residential accommodation, after assessing the need for various categories of guests that are likely to use the same such as our own Board officials, affiliated states officials, VIP guests, cricketers and others,” the letter read.

 

 

[WC2011INDIA]

The 5 star lodging facility will be used by officials and some cricketers for "OTHER" purposes. 

Edited February 5, 2018 by WC2011INDIA

[Cricketics]

May be that will help shifting Rohit Sharma in test base to may be Karun Nair or someone more deserving.

 

[sandeep]

BCCI has enough money to build their own Jamshedpur outside Banglore.   

[maniac]

Concerned about Rahul Dravid’s time away from family now

 

[BeautifulGame]

Nice.

 

Particularly the state of the art NCA facility

[mancalledsting]

nothing against Bangalore but I would have preferred BCCI HQ to be in a more central location (i.e. equidistant from north and south).  I think putting in extreme north e.g. Chandigarh or extreme south marginalises a lot of locations. 

[gattaca]

8 minutes ago, mancalledsting said:

nothing against Bangalore but I would have preferred BCCI HQ to be in a more central location (i.e. equidistant from north and south).  I think putting in extreme north e.g. Chandigarh or extreme south marginalises a lot of locations. 

Agree they should have selected Hyderabad.

Edited February 5, 2018 by gattaca

[sandeep]

20 minutes ago, mancalledsting said:

nothing against Bangalore but I would have preferred BCCI HQ to be in a more central location (i.e. equidistant from north and south).  I think putting in extreme north e.g. Chandigarh or extreme south marginalises a lot of locations. 

You need the location to be a major metro city for transit connectivity purposes.   Weather is also a factor, and Banglore IIRC was considered to be a 'pleasant' climate back in the day.  

 

I would have preferred if they kept the HQ in Bombay.   But Bangalore makes sense, especially if they can acquire such a big chunk of land.   Although I think BCCI has enough resources and 'connections' to acquire similar land near the new airport being built in Navi Mumbai.  

[mancalledsting]

1 minute ago, sandeep said:

You need the location to be a major metro city for transit connectivity purposes.   Weather is also a factor, and Banglore IIRC was considered to be a 'pleasant' climate back in the day.  

 

I would have preferred if they kept the HQ in Bombay.   But Bangalore makes sense, especially if they can acquire such a big chunk of land.   Although I think BCCI has enough resources and 'connections' to acquire similar land near the new airport being built in Navi Mumbai.  

I think Mumbai, Pune or Hyderbad would have been more appropriate.

[sandeep]

19 minutes ago, mancalledsting said:

I think Mumbai, Pune or Hyderbad would have been more appropriate.

Not sure how flight connectivity to Pune is.   Bombay/Hyd could definitely be contenders.  

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Mumbai is the financial capital. Most corporates are headquartered there.

[Vilander]

meh does this even matter. But wait would this mean BCCi honchos will now drive through bangalore trafic...

 

lol..

 

may be they will buy helicopters. Or have it near devanahalli

[cowboysfan]

3 hours ago, gattaca said:

Agree they should have selected Hyderabad.

They may have to work in the summer, Hyderabad is unlivable during summer.

[gattaca]

2 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

They may have to work in the summer, Hyderabad is unlivable during summer.

Acs work in Hyderabad 

Edited February 5, 2018 by gattaca

[cowboysfan]

1 hour ago, gattaca said:

Acs work in Hyderabad 

this is what people from Phoenix say to me