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Former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar has taken over as International Cricket Council President on Thursday, becoming the second Indian, after Jagmohan Dalmiya, to occupy the top post. Pawar became the seventh ICC President, succeeding Englishman David Morgan.On the other hand,after unsuccessfully giving Cricket Board (BCCI) secretary N Srinivasan 48 hours'' time to recuse from any disciplinary proceedings against him, suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi is deciding the future course of action, said his legal counsel Mehmood Abdi today. "We gave Mr Srinivsan 48 hours to recuse himself and to alter the agenda of the July 3 Special General Body meeting.
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Meanwhile,India's food price index rose 12.92 per cent in the year to June 19, while the fuel price index climbed 12.90 percent, government data released on Thursday showed. The pace of increase in food prices slowed from the previous week's annual rise of 16.90 percent, while fuel price inflation eased from last week's annual rise of 13.18 per cent. The primary articles index was up at 14.75 per cent. Wholesale price index, the most closely watched inflation gauge in India, rose 10.16 per cent in May from a year earlier. |
Dalmiya was the first Indian to be elected for the post, in 1997. Th decision was taken in the annual conference week which began on June 27 with the Chief Executives' Committee (CEC) meeting.
The main agenda for the CEC meeting was the subject of the Future Tours Programme 2012-20, including possibility of having ICC Test and ODI leagues.
The Executive Board also received updates on the design of mandatory Safety and Security Regulations drawn up by Security Task Force, chaired by Paul Condon, following the Lahore attack last year.
Pawar becomes the president at a time when Indian subcontinent will organise the World Cup 2011.
We have not got a reply (from Srinivasan) in this regard. We are watching the developments and will take appropriate action at appropriate time," Abdi told PTI. Modi wrote to Srinivasan, stating that the latter''s decision to convene the SGM to ratify his action of referring the charges against the suspended IPL chief and his replies thereof to the BCCI''s disciplinary committee was illegal.
Modi, who has raised counter allegations against Srinivasan, gave the BCCI secretary time till June 23 to confirm that his replies would be circulated to the BCCI''s general body in order to "decide the way forward in the matter including the allegations against him." The suspended IPL chief also wanted his suspension to be placed before the general body.
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Monsoon rains were 16 per cent below normal in June, the second-lowest since 1995, delaying soybean planting in the world's top edible oils importer and ruling out early lifting of curbs on grain exports. The shaky start of the rainy season also heightens concerns of food inflation that soared to nearly 17 per cent last month, having risen steadily after last year's June-September monsoon delivered the weakest rains in nearly four decades.June rainfall was disappointing but still 60 percent higher than the same month a year ago, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed.
IMD said adverse local weather conditions had weakened the monsoon winds that reached the country's southern coast on schedule but have not advanced beyond eastern and central India since June 18. Still, the weather office expects a quick revival of rains and total rainfall in the four-month season would still be normal as forecast earlier, Ajit Tyagi, director general of the IMD told media.
"I stand by the forecast of normal monsoon. We are hopeful of a revival by July 2 or July 3," he said. The poor start of monsoon rains, the main source of water for 60 percent of Indian farms, has slowed down planting of soybeans in central India, while farmers in the grainbowl states of Punjab and Haryana may delay rice planting if rains do not revive quickly, traders and officials said.
Sluggish monsoon would also discourage the government from lifting export curbs on wheat and rice although the country has massive stockpiles, analysts say.
"Curbs on grain exports would continue until the monsoon ends," said S. Raghuraman, an analyst with the Delhi-based consulting firm Agriwatch. India's food prices were up an annual 16.90 percent in mid-June, while the overall inflation rate has risen above 10 per cent, maintaining pressure on the central bank to tighten monetary policy.
Inflation, which has already triggered several protests in the country, may rise further as the government last week lifted controls on petrol prices and raised the state-set rates of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene.
IPL franchises under the lens for service tax evasion
NEW DELHI: After the Income Tax department raising a demand of over Rs 600 crore from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the service tax department, another arm of the finance ministry, has slapped as many as 32 showcause notices on Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises for alleged duty evasion to the tune of nearly Rs 64 crore.
The total collection of service tax by the department during the third season of IPL was Rs 29 crore. This was almost half of what it had made during IPL-2 which was held in South Africa. In the second season of IPL, the service tax collection was Rs 64 crore. The total collection made by service tax authorities in the first season was Rs 81 lakh.
While investigative agencies are yet to conclude probe on the remittances and shareholding pattern of these franchises, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) constituted a team to review payments received from IPL on suspicion of evasion.
Commissioners in different zones were asked to look into the accounts of these franchises and seek details of their earnings and expenditure.
Sources said service tax authorities in Bangalore had issued a maximum of 14 showcause notices for estimated evasion to the tune of Rs 8.85 crore. The highest evasion of Rs 37 crore, however, has been detected in the Mumbai region where three franchises are assessed.
The notices were issued to franchises after tax officials accounted for all services provided by various stakeholders relating to the IPL matches.
Service tax is levied on franchise fees paid by eight franchises to the BCCI, remittances made to UK-based IMG for management and business consultancy services, on payments received by franchises on sale of advertisement space and on income from the sale of game rights, such as any toy or game of any kind which is based on the IPL or team competing in the league.
The lowest showcause was of Rs 9 lakh issued by the Kolkata commissionerate. In case of Chandigarh, it was Rs 6.24 crore; for Delhi it was Rs 11.31 crore and Chennai Rs 29 lakh.
I-T authorities have raised a tax demand of Rs 684 crore from the BCCI rejecting the cricket body's claim to exempt its income starting assessment year 2007-08.
Sources said the I-T department has asked BCCI to pay Rs 118 crore for 2007-08, Rs 421 crore for 2008-09 and Rs 145 crore for 2009-10. The department had earlier withdrawn tax exemption to the cricket body stating that it no longer promoted cricket as a charitable activity.
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IPL will get bigger without Modi: Shetty
New Delhi: The success of the IPL was not because of Lalit Modi alone, according to a top BCCI official, who reckons the Twenty20 league will continue to flourish without the suspended Commissioner as cricket sells itself in India.
The BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty said that the Board has enough competent people to take the event forward.
"The IPL will continue to flourish. The success is not only because of Modi. BCCI will put up a good team to make IPL even more successful," Shetty told PTI in an e-mail interview today.
The high-flying Modi was suspended as the chairman and commissioner of the league after the final on Sunday because of alleged financial irregularities and rigging of bids.
Modi was charged on five counts, including irregularities in the bids of Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab and in the broadcast and internet deals.
Modi's removal has raised apprehensions among the franchises many of whom openly backed the embattled former commissioner during the raging controversy.
"There is no need for the franchisees to be apprehensive.
BCCI will ensure that IPL will be managed professionally. The BCCI president Shashank Manohar and interim chairman Chirayu Amin have already made it clear in this regard," Shetty said.
The scandal has tarnished the image of the BCCI to a great extent but Shetty said steps would be taken to protect the game and the Board's reputation.
"BCCI will take all steps required to protect the game and its own reputation. All these developments gave a bad name to the organisation but we will take all corrective steps," the chief administrative officer said.
Shetty, who has been given the responsibility of investigating all the missing documents related to bids and other IPL deals, said he would write to Modi to hand over all the original documents which are with him.
"We will officially write to Modi to hand over all the original documents held by him as they are the property of BCCI," he said.
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Kings XI Punjab under I.T. scanner
Mumbai: The Indian Premier League (IPL) team, Kings XI Punjab, has come under the scanner of the Income Tax (IT) Department with respect to Mohit Burman''s share in the team.
"Mohit Burman''s funds came from London via Mauritius," said IT sources.
"Kings XI Punjab incurred unexpected losses of Rs 70 crore," sources added.
Kings XI co-owner Ness Wadia has rubbished all the charges against the team.
"Do not wish to get sucked into speculations in the media," said Ness Wadia.
"All funds are above the Board and we are co-operating with the investigating agencies," he added.
Preity Zinta, actor and part-owner of the Punjab team has said that there are no proxy holdings in Punjab Kings XI.
Zinta said that she is confident that suspended IPL Commsioner Lalit Modi is not a secret owner in the Punjab franchise.
Modi''s relative Mohit Burman, bought into the team at the same time as Zinta and other partners like Karan Paul. Mohit''s brother, Gaurav, invested in the team later, said Zinta, and he is not a front for Modi.
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ICC to encourage resumption of Indo-Pak series: Pawar
Singapore: Barely hours after taking over as the ICC president, Sharad Pawar said the game's apex body would try to encourage the resumption of Indo-Pak bilateral series if there is government clearance from both sides.
"Recent Foreign and Home Minister's visit to Pakistan is a welcome sign. If India and Pakistan start playing and it influences the bilateral relations of the two countries and also if both the governments permit, we will be happy to encourage," Pawar said.
Former BCCI President Pawar, who is also a serving union minister in the Indian government, begins a two-year term as ICC President after taking over from David Morgan today.
The 69-year-old Pawar hoped the process to improve the relations between the two neighbouring countries will help to foster cricketing ties too.
"ICC wants India and Pakistan to continue their bilateral series. But ICC had not taken the initiative to stop that. It was because of some unforseen circumstances that both the countries had decided to stop it. But now that the process to improve relations between the countries is on, it will give some dividends to cricket too," Pawar told CNN-IBN.
The cricketing ties between India and Pakistan were stalled after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
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China PMI weighs globally, Nifty ends at 5250
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NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) – According to global corruption watchdog, Transparency International, corruption in India is endemic and present in most sectors of society.
Here are six major corruption scandals involving different sectors of society which have hit the headlines:
SPORTS: The head of India's $4 billion cricket league, Lalit Modi, was suspended from his post in April following graft allegations in a scandal that has also ensnared politicians. Tax authorities are currently probing the three-year-old Indian Premier League, the game's most lucrative tournament, after a junior government minister resigned following allegations of improper influence. While Modi has not been formally charged and denies any wrongdoing, newspapers have said authorities are investigating reports of improprieties in bidding for teams and in negotiating television broadcast rights for the matches.
HEALTH: In January 2008, the World Bank said it had uncovered "serious incidents" of corruption in a review of five health projects in India. A probe by the Bretton Woods institution found there were "unacceptable indicators of fraud and corruption" in bank-funded projects for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Funding for the projects, which were launched between 1997 and 2003, totalled over $500 million. The bank review found evidence of bid rigging and other forms of procurement fraud as well as corruption and shoddy auditing.
DEFENCE: The Bofors case has been one of the highest-profile and longest-running criminal investigations in India. In the 1980's, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several other officials were accused of receiving kickbacks from Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors for winning a bid to supply India with 400 howitzers. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before, and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi's ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections.
JUDICIARY: In July 2008, an investigation found 36 judges were guilty of receiving gifts bought with money embezzled from the court treasury in Ghaziabad, a satellite town on the outskirts of the capital. Tens of millions of rupees were siphoned off from the provident funds of employees by the treasury officer who illegally spent the money on furniture, crockery, mobiles, laptops, rail tickets, taxi fares and other items for the judges.
POLITICS: In November 2009, Madhu Koda, the former chief minister of the eastern state of Jharkhand, was arrested in connection with a corruption investigation. Koda is accused of possessing assets disproportionate with his income and for alleged money laundering. He is alleged to have laundered millions of rupees from public coffers during his stint as chief minister of Jharkhand between 2006 and 2008.
CORPORATE: In January 2009, Ramalinga Raju, chairman and founder of India's fourth-largest software company Satyam Computer Services, resigned after revealing years of accounting fraud in the country's biggest corporate fraud. Raju admitted about $1 billion, or 94 percent of the cash on the company's books was fictitious. "What started as a marginal gap between actual operating profits and the one reflected in the books of accounts continued to grow over the years," said Raju. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."
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Owning responsibility- The IPL has a lot to learn
Sports leagues across the world have careful histories of due diligence over who owns and buys their teams -- something the IPL should learn that the NFL, arguably the most lucrative and successful professional sports league in the world, has a somewhat unique ownership structure, one which allows it to maintain strict control over management and ownership of teams.
There is absolutely no corporate ownership. The sale and purchase of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are frequently debated, and due diligence and background checks that have been conducted are sometimes questioned with respect to their thoroughness, as are the ownership guidelines.
The transparency of ownership in the Indian Premier League, or IPL, has garnered much attention of late, with much of the focus being on the equity ownership of the new Kochi franchise. While it would be premature to speculate on whether or not the ownership of the ten franchises is of questionable antecedents, what seems to have gone relatively unnoticed in all the fuss is that this is an extremely positive development, albeit if carried out under duress.
There shouldn't be an iron curtain when it comes to information on team and league ownership in professional sports leagues.
Indeed, the IPL is one of the only global sports leagues about which so little is known when it comes to the stakeholders. Until now this was not really an issue; but transparency in ownership is a must, as is accountability of the league and confidence in its conforming with legal and ethical considerations.
It is, after all, about to enter the next phase of its existence. Investments in the teams are imminent. So are, reportedly, changes of ownership and of control of the franchises. Prior to these contracts taking place, there should be a clear cut methodology in place that governs how the league does its due diligence when it is to induct new ownership.
Globally, there isn't a hard and fast rule that describes the structure of professional sports leagues; nor is there any such rule when it comes to the ownership pattern of the teams within them. Ye s, it is true that the fact remains that ownership in professional sports leagues -- especially where there are large consortiums owning a particular team -- are hard to regulate and verify.
However, the first step is transparency, and a clearcut guideline of ownership which would stipulate the ownership eligibility criterion. Once the eligibility criterion is met, then one can verify the funding and ownership.
The National Football League and the English Premier League are two of the most profitable and popular sports leagues in the world. Their respective league rules however mandate contrasting ownership structures.
The NFL, arguably the most lucrative and successful professional sports league in the world, has a somewhat unique ownership structure, one which allows it to maintain strict control over management and ownership of teams. Unlike other leagues, there is absolutely no corporate ownership allowed, and the ownership groups must contain twenty-four or fewer individuals.
The general partner and his/her family must together own thirty percent or more of the team, and any change in ownership is strictly regulated. The reasoning behind this is also linked to ensuring focused management with a singular vision as well as consistent and long term ownership. The ownership for the most part is transparent, and for all intents and purposes, above-board.
The EPL is the exact opposite, where size and influence have mattered. The sale or purchase of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are frequently debated, and due diligence and background checks that have been conducted are sometimes questioned with respect to their thoroughness. The ownership guidelines have been questioned, too, along with their implementation.
The EPL faces, as well, questions about the nature of foreign investment in its clubs. While foreign investment has propped up the league and made it a global powerhouse, many of the clubs are debt-ridden, and the cleanliness of the funds and ownership has been a subject of mass speculation.
Other professional sports leagues follow different patterns. Some leagues own their teams outright; investors then pay for the rights to manage and host a particular team's games. There is no clear-cut formula for how leagues are owned globally.
While foreign ownership in the US leagues hasn't been much of a factor, the EPL on the other hand has seen a mass influx of foreign investment, and there are concerns as to whether or not the ownership guidelines would need to be tweaked.
The Thaksin fiasco with Manchester City -in which the controversial former Prime Minister of Thailand briefly became the storied club's majority shareholder before selling out to an Abu-Dhabi based consortium -led to calls for curbing foreign investment But what the debt-ridden EPL clubs desperately need is equity financing.
What is more likely is a more rigorous `know your investor' credential and background check, so as to ensure the sanctity of management and ownership of these teams. This is also something the IPL can adopt so as to avoid future spats, and ensure there is a systematic procedure in place. If it learns from the EPL, then it has found a good model to emulate.
Source: The Indian Express
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address at the Toronto meet of the leaders of the group of 20 most significant economies (G20) was well received and several of his ideas find reflection in the final communiqué .
Being taken as a responsible member of the international community has many practical advantages, but you will not be taken seriously if you do not implement at home the prescriptions that you recommend for others. That is an added reason why we have to get political on India's missing infrastructure.
Dr Manmohan Singh recommended that developing countries should invest heavily in their infrastructure, so as to boost domestic growth and global demand. Is India investing enough in its infrastructure? We are not. Is the problem that we don't have the money to invest in infrastructure?
Not at all — there is too much money sloshing through the world's financial veins for anyone to complain of monetary anaemia. Attractive , reasonably certain returns are the motive force that drives money through the financial circulatory system.
We in India have a political culture that makes it very unlikely that any money that goes into certain types of infrastructure would ever make a return. Naturally, no one in their right senses would voluntarily invest their funds in such areas.
A tourniquet is normally tied to staunch the flow of blood from a wound on an arm or a leg. If, on a perfectly normal leg, we put a tourniquet and twist it tight and then blood stops flowing down the limb beyond the restriction, why blame the blood or the heart that pumps it?
The political culture that prevents investment in some infrastructure sectors fetching any reasonable return is like a tourniquet on a healthy limb. If the limb then goes numb or, worse, begins to rot, the solution is simple and obvious: set up a GoM!
So far, we have set up Cabinet committees and expert committees on infrastructure . These comprise civil servants and technocrats. They rarely muster the courage to tell their political bosses the raw truth: what the politicians do is the problem.
All new infrastructure needs land. India has very little of unutilised, free land. Some people would have to be displaced to acquire the land for a new infrastructure project.
Displacement offers a gold mine of opportunity for the politician. You could oppose it, demand higher compensation, a better rehabilitation package, a slice of the package in used notes of small denominations that would pass off as gifts and contributions from numerous well-wishers .
In the absence of institutional funding of politics, all politicians mobilise funds for their political activity in non-institutional ways that the simple-minded call corruption.
This normally involves colluding with the bureaucracy, to sell patronage, to extort money from the well-heeled or to loot the exchequer. Once compromised, bureaucrats make money for themselves, as well. Large infrastructure projects are ideal targets for wielding all three prongs of such fund mobilisation.
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Statement against Government of India's planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions: National and international signatories
October 12, 2009
Sanhati (www.sanhati.com), a collective of activists/academics who have been working in solidarity with peoples' movements in India by providing information and analysis, took the initiative to bring together voices from around the world against the Government of India's planned military offensive in Central India. A statement (Hindi version here, Bengali version here, Telugu version here, Italian version of Letter here, Italian version of Background Note here, Spanish version of Letter, Spanish version of Background Note) and a background note were drafted in consultation with Indian activists, and duly circulated for endorsement. Readers are encouraged to endorse by mailing sanhatiindia [at] sanhati [dot] com with full name and affiliation.
To
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister,
Government of India,
South Block, Raisina Hill,
New Delhi,
India-110 011.
We are deeply concerned by the Indian government's plans for launching an unprecedented military offensive by army and paramilitary forces in the adivasi (indigeneous people)-populated regions of Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal states. The stated objective of the offensive is to "liberate" these areas from the influence of Maoist rebels. Such a military campaign will endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions of the poorest people living in those areas, resulting in massive displacement, destitution and human rights violation of ordinary citizens. To hunt down the poorest of Indian citizens in the name of trying to curb the shadow of an insurgency is both counter-productive and vicious. The ongoing campaigns by paramilitary forces, buttressed by anti-rebel militias, organised and funded by government agencies, have already created a civil war like situation in some parts of Chattisgarh and West Bengal, with hundreds killed and thousands displaced. The proposed armed offensive will not only aggravate the poverty, hunger, humiliation and insecurity of the adivasi people, but also spread it over a larger region.
Grinding poverty and abysmal living conditions that has been the lot of India's adivasi population has been complemented by increasing state violence since the neoliberal turn in the policy framework of the Indian state in the early 1990s. Whatever little access the poor had to forests, land, rivers, common pastures, village tanks and other common property resources has come under increasing attack by the Indian state in the guise of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and other "development" projects related to mining, industrial development, Information Technology parks, etc. The geographical terrain, where the government's military offensive is planned to be carried out, is very rich in natural resources like minerals, forest wealth and water, and has been the target of large scale appropriation by several corporations. The desperate resistance of the local indigenous people against their displacement and dispossession has in many cases prevented the government-backed corporations from making inroads into these areas. We fear that the government's offensive is also an attempt to crush such popular resistances in order to facilitate the entry and operation of these corporations and to pave the way for unbridled exploitation of the natural resources and the people of these regions. It is the widening levels of disparity and the continuing problems of social deprivation and structural violence, and the state repression on the non-violent resistance of the poor and marginalized against their dispossession, which gives rise to social anger and unrest and takes the form of political violence by the poor. Instead of addressing the source of the problem, the Indian state has decided to launch a military offensive to deal with this problem: kill the poor and not the poverty, seems to be the implicit slogan of the Indian government.
We feel that it would deliver a crippling blow to Indian democracy if the government tries to subjugate its own people militarily without addressing their grievances. Even as the short-term military success of such a venture is very doubtful, enormous misery for the common people is not in doubt, as has been witnessed in the case of numerous insurgent movements in the world. We urge the Indian government to immediately withdraw the armed forces and stop all plans for carrying out such military operations that has the potential for triggering a civil war which will inflict widespread misery on the poorest and most vulnerable section of the Indian population and clear the way for the plundering of their resources by corporations. We call upon all democratic-minded people to join us in this appeal.
Click here for list of National Signatories
Click here for list of International Signatories
Detailed Background Note for the statement
Click here for Hindi version of statement [PDF, Hindi]
Click here for Bengali version of statement [PDF, Bengali]
Italian version of Letter here (- Daniela Bezzi)
Italian version of Background Note here
National Signatories
Arundhati Roy, Author and Activist, India
Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Center for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, India
Sandeep Pandey, Social Activist, N.A.P.M., India
Mahashweta Devi, Social Activist and Writer, India
Manoranjan Mohanty, Durgabai Deshmukh Professor of Social Development, Council for Social Development, India
Prashant Bhushan, Supreme Court Advocate, India
Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
Colin Gonzalves, Supreme Court Advocate, India
Arvind Kejriwal, Social Activist, India
Arundhati Dhuru, Activist, N.A.P.M., India
Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Department of Geography, University of Mumbai, India
Anand Patwardhan, Film Maker, India
Dipankar Bhattachararya, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, India
Bernard D'Mello, Associate Editor, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), India
Sumit Sarkar, Retired Professor of History, Delhi University, India
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, J.N.U., India
Gautam Navlakha, Consulting Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, India
Madhu Bhaduri, Ex-ambassador
Sumanta Banerjee, Writer, India
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Philosopher, Writer, Environmental Activist, India
M.V. Ramana, Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy; Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, USA
Dipanjan Rai Chaudhari, Retired Professor, Presidency College, India
G. N. Saibaba, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi
Amit Bhattacharyya, Professor, Department of History. Jadavpur University, Kolkata
D.N. Jha, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Delhi, India
Paromita Vohra, Devi Pictures
Sunil Shanbag, Theater Director
Saroj Giri, Lecturer in Political Science, Delhi University, India
Sudeshna Banerjee, Department of History, Jadavpur University, India
Achin Chakraborty, Professor of Economics, Institute of Development Studies, Calcutta University Alipore, India
Anand Chakravarty, Retired Professor, Delhi University, India
Anjan Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, Calcutta University, India
Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, Professor, Jadavpur University, India
Uma Chakravarty, Retired Professor, Delhi University, India
Kunal Chattopadhyay, Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India
Amiya Dev, Emiritus Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India
Subhash Gatade, Writer and Social Activisit, India
Abhijit Guha, Vidyasagar University, India
Kaneez Fathima, Librarian and Activist, Hyderabad
Kavita Krishnan, AIPWA, India
Gauri Lankesh, Editor, Lankesh Patrike, India
Pulin B. Nayak, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
Imrana Qadeer, Retired Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, J.N.U., India
Neshant Quaiser, Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, Department of Sociology, India
Ramdas Rao, President, People's Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore Unit, India
S. Jeevan Kumar, President, Human Rights Forum, Andhra Pradesh, India
V.S.Krishna, State General Secretary, Human Rights Forum, Andhra Pradesh, India
Shereen Ratnagar, Retired Professor, Center for Historical Studies, JNU, India
Rahul Varman, Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
Padma Velaskar, Professor, Center for Studies in the Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Hilal Ahmed, Associate Fellow, Center for the Studies of Development of Societies, India
Reetha Balsavar
Sriparna Bandopadhyay, India
Chinmoy Banerjee
Kaushik Banyopadhyay, Student, IIT KGP, India
Pranab Kanti Basu, Department of Economics and Politics, Vishwa Bharati University, India
Durga Bhat, PUCL, Mangalore, India
Suresh Bhat, PUCL, Mangalore, India
Arunkanti Biswas, Former Deputy Director, NEERI, India
Nisha Biswas, CGCRI, Kolkata, India
Harsh Bora, Student, Delhi Law Faculty, India
Kaushik Bose, Reader, Vidyasagar University, India
Shitansu Shekhar Chakraborty, Student, IIT Kharagpur, India
Rabin Chakraborty
Indira Chakravarthi, Public Health Researcher, India
Dipankar Chakrabarti, Aneek, India
Tapan Chakraborty, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Nandini Chandra, Member of Faculty, Delhi University, India
Navin Chandra, Visiting Senior Fellow, Institude of Human Development, India
Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative, CWI, India
Pratyush Chandra, Activist, Freelance Journalist, and Researcher, India
Pritha Chandra, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi, India
Dhiman Chatterjee, IIT Chennai, India
Aziz Choudry, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Canada
Jaison C Cooper, Janakeeya Manushyavakasa Prasthanam, Kerala, India
Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati, India
Probal Dasgupta, Linguistic Research Unit, I.S.I., India
Sangeeta Dasgupta, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, India
Surya Shankar Dash, Independent Filmmaker, India
Ashokankur Datta, Graduate Student, I.S.I. (Planning Unit), India
Aniruddha Dutta, Gender Women's and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, USA
Soumik DuttaS. Dutta, Delhi Platform, India
Madhumita Dutta, Green Youth Movement, India, Chennai
Abhee Dutt-Mazumder, TASAM, India
Durga Prasad Duvvuri, Independent Management Consultant, India
Ajit Eapen, Mumbai, IndiaSampath G, Mumbai, India
Lena Ganesh
M.S. Ganesh
Anjan Ghosh, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
Aurnab Ghose, IISER Pune, India
Anandaroop Ghosh, India
Pothik Ghosh, Editor, Radical Notes, India
Rajeev Godara, General Secretary, Sampooran Kranti Manch, Haryana (associated with Lok Rajniti Manch), India
Siddhartha Gupta, Senior Medical Officer, Kolkata Port Trust, India
Jacob, South Asia Study Center
Manish Jain, Assistant Professor, Center for Studies of Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Shishir K. Jha, IIT Mumbai, India
Avinash K. Jha, Assistant Professor of Economics, Shri Ram College of Commerce, India
Partha Joarder, Scientist, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Bodhisattva Kar, Fellow in History, Center for Studies in Social Science, India
Ravi Kant, Advocate, Supreme Court, Delhi, India
Harish Karnick, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
Lateef Mohd Khan, General Secretary, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, India
Sumbul Jawed Khan, Biological Sciences and Bio. Eng. Department, IIT Kanpur, India
Reetika Khera, DSE, Delhi, India
Rajeesh Kollakkandi, indianvanguard.wordpress.com
Lenin Kumar, editor, Nisan, India
Ravi Kumar, Editor of Radical Notes and Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, India
Abhijit Kundu, Faculty, Sociology, University of Delhi
P. Govindan kutty, Editor, People's March, Ernakulam, Kerala
Shakuntala Mahanta, IIT Guwahati
Bodhisattwa Maity, India
Parthasarathi Majumdar, Senior Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Soumik Majumder
Dishery Malakar
Julie Koppel Maldonado
Udai Malhotra, Activist, India
Mallanagoudar.P.K., Journalist, Gauri Lankesh Kannada Weekly, Bangalore, India
Prabhat Mandal, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India
Dr Nandini Manjrekar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Soma Marik
John Mathen, India
Satyabrata Mitra
Siddhartha Mitra
Najeeb Mubarki, Assistant Editor, Editorial page, Economic Times, India
Dipankar Mukherjee, PDF, Delhi, India
Subhasis Mukhopadhyay, Frontier
Soumya Mukhopadhyay, Market Researcher - Independent filmmaker, Kolkata
Sakuntala Narsimhan, Writer, India
Nalini Nayak, Reader in Economics, PGDAV College, Delhi University, India
Soheb ur Rahman Niazi, Student, Jamia Milia Islamia, India
Rahul Pandey, India
Dr. Swadhin Pattanayak, India
Jai Pushp, Activist, Naujawan Bharat Sabha, India
Divya Rajagopal
Ramendra, Delhi Shramik Sangathan, India
V. Nagendra Rao, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India
Sankar Ray, Columnist
Partho Sarathi Ray, IISER, Kolkata
Kirity Roy, MASUM and PACTI, India
Atanu Roy
Anindyo Roy
Dunu Roy, Social Activist, India
Anil Sadgopal, Education Activist and Former Professor of Education, Delhi University, India
Sanjoy Kumar Saha, Reader, CSE department, Jadavpur University, India
Sandeep, Freelance Journalist
Dr. K. Saradamoni, Retired Academic
Madhu Sarin, Social Activist
Saurobijay Sarkar, Indian Institute of Marxist Studies
Satyam, Rahul Foundation and Dayitvbodh, India
Samriddhi Shankar Ray, Concern, IISc Bangalore, India
Sujay Sarkar
Meera Sehgal, Department of Sociology, Carleton College, USA
Jhuma Sen, Delhi
Samita Sen, Professor, Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, India
Santanu Sengupta, UDML College of Engineering, India
Ajay Kishor Shaw, Mumbai, India
Dr. Mira Shiva
Sheo Mangal Siddhantankar, General Secretary, CPIML-New Proleterian, India
Jagmohan Singh, Voices for Freedom Punjab, India
Sandeep Singh, Mumbai, India
Harindar Pal Singh Ishar, Advocate, Punjab and Haryana High Court, India
Preeti Sinha, Editor of Philhal, Patna, India
Sirajuddeen K M, P A College of Engineering, Mangalore
Oishik Sircar, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, India
Satya Sivaraman, Journalist, New Delhi, India
Yogesh Snehi, DAV College, Amritsar, India
Srinvasashala, Human Rights Organisation, Hyderabad, India
K. Sriram
Viviek Sundara, Mumbai, India
Saswati Swetlena, Programme Officer, Governance and Advocacy Unit, National Center for Advocacy Studies, India
Damayanti Talukdar, Kolkata
Divya Trivedi, The Hindu Business Line, India
Satyam Varma, Rahul Foundation
N Venugopal, Journalist, Hyderabad, India
G. Vijay, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India
R.M. Vikas, IIT Kanpur, India
International Signatories
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, M.I.T., USA
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, The C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, USA
Michael Lebowitz, Director, Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development, Centro Internacional Mirana, Venezuela
John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review and Professor of Sociology,University of Oregon Eugene,USA
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, USA
James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA
Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Development Studies, University of California Berkeley, USA
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Departments of Anthropology and Political Science, Columbia University, USA
Mira Nair, Filmmaker, Mirabai Films, USA
Howard Zinn, Historian, Playwright, and Social Activisit, USA
Abha Sur, Women's Studies, M.I.T., USA
Richard Peet, Professor of Geography, Clark University, USA
Richard Levins, John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, U.K
Massimo De Angelis, Professor of Political Economy, University of East London, UK
Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Emory University, USA
Brian Stross, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin, USA
J. Mohan Rao, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Vinay Lal, Professor of History & Asian American Studies, University of California Los Angeles, USA
James Crotty, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Haluk Gerger, Political Scientist, Activist, Political Prisoner, Turkey
Justin Podur, Journalist, Canada
Hari Kunzru, Novelist, U.K.
Louis Proyect, Columbia University
Biju Mathew, Associate Professor, Rider University, USA
Balmurli Natrajan, Campaign to Stop Funding Hate and South Asia Solidarity Initiative, USA
Hari Sharma, President, South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Canada
Harsh Kapoor, South Asia Citizens Web
Kim Berry, Professor of Women's Studies, Humboldt State University, USA
Shefali Chandra, Professor of South Asian History, Washington University at St Louis, USA
Angana Chatterji, Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA
Paresh Chattopadhyay, Département de Sociologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Stan Cox, Senior Scientist, The Land Institute, USA
Martin Doornbos, Professor Emeritus, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Robert A Hueckstedt, Professor, University of Virginia, USA
Louis Kampf, Professor of Literature Emeritus, MIT, USA
Emily Kawano, Director, Center for Popular Economics, USA
Arthur MacEwan, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, USA
Ali Mir, Professor, William Paterson University, USA
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Longman Professor of English, Oberlin College, USA
Kavita Philip, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA
Nicholas De Genova, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies, Columbia University, USA
Peter Custers, Academic researcher on militarisation, Netherlands
Radha D'Souza, School of Law, University of Westminster , UK
Gary Aboud, Secretary, Fisherman and Friends of the Sea, Trinidad and Tobago
Mysara Abu-Hashem, Ph.D. Student, American University, USA
Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Professor of English, Montclair University, USA
Husna Haider Ali, People's Resistance and Labour Party, Pakistan
Nadim Asrar, Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota, USA
Margaret E Sheehan, Attorney at Law, USA
Jude Baggo, Secretary General, Cordillera Human Rights Alliance, Philippines
Arpita Banerjee, Lecturer, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, USA
David Barsamian, Director, Alternative Radio, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Oyman Basaran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Deepankar Basu, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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BACKGROUND NOTE
It has been widely reported in the press that the Indian government is planning an unprecedented military offensive against alleged Maoist rebels, using paramilitary and counter-insurgency forces, possibly the Indian Armed Forces and even the Indian Air Force. This military operation is going to be carried out in the forested and semi-forested rural areas of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,West Bengal and Maharashtra, populated mainly by the tribal (indigenous) people of India. Reportedly, the offensive has been planned in consultation with US counter-insurgency agencies. To put the Indian government's proposed military offensive in proper perspective one needs to understand the economic, social and political background to the conflict. In particular, there are three dimensions of the crisis that needs to be emphasized, because it is often overlooked: (a) the development failure of the post-colonial Indian state, (b) the continued existence and often exacerbation of the structural violence faced by the poor and marginalized, and (c) the full-scale assault on the meager resource base of the peasantry and the tribal (indigenous people) in the name of "development". Let us look at each of these in turn, but before we do so it needs to be stressed that the facts we mention below are not novel; they are well-known if only conveniently forgotten. Most of these facts were pointed out by the April 2008 Report of the Expert Group of the Planning Commission of the Indian Government (headed by retired civil servant D. Bandopadhyay) to study "development challenges in extremist affected areas".
The post-colonial Indian State, both in its earlier Nehruvian and the more recent neoliberal variant, has failed miserably to solve the basic problems of poverty, employment and income, housing, primary health care, education and inequality and social discrimination of the people of the country. The utter failure of the development strategy of the post-colonial State is the ground on which the current conflict arises. To recount some well known but oft-forgotten facts, recall that about 77 percent of the Indian population in 2004-05 had a per capita daily consumption expenditure of less than Rs. 20; that is less than 50 cents by the current nominal exchange rate between the rupee and the US dollar and about $2 in purchasing power parity terms. According to the 2001 Census, even 62 years after political independence, only about 42 percent of Indian households have access to electricity. About 80 percent of the households do not have access to safe drinking water; that is a staggering 800 million people lacking access to potable water.
What is the condition of the working people in the country? 93 percent of the workforce, the overwhelming majority of the working people in India, are what the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) called "informal workers"; these workers lack any employment security, work security and social security. About 58 percent of them work in the agricultural sector and the rest is engaged in manufacturing and services. Wages are very low and working conditions extremely onerous, leading to persistent and deep poverty, which has been increasing over the last decade and a half in absolute terms: the number of what the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) called the "poor and vulnerable" increased from 811 million in 1999-00 to 836 million in 2004-05. Since majority of the working people still work in the agricultural sector, the economic stagnation in agriculture is a major cause for the continued poverty of the vast majority of the people. Since the Indian state did not undertake land reforms in any meaningful sense, the distribution of land remains extremely skewed to this day. Close to 60 percent of rural households are effectively landless; and extreme economic vulnerability and despair among the small and marginal peasantry has resulted in the largest wave of suicides in history: between 1997 and 2007, 182,936 farmers committed suicide. This is the economic setting of the current conflict.
But in this sea of poverty and misery, there are two sections of the population that are much worse off than the rest: the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) population. On almost all indicators of social well being, the SCs and STs are worse off than the general population: poverty rates are higher, landlessness is higher, infant mortality rates are higher, levels of formal education are lower, and so on. To understand this differential in social and economic deprivation we need to look at the second aspect of the current crisis that we had alluded to: structural violence.
There are two dimensions of this structural violence: (a) oppression, humiliation and discrimination along the lines of caste and ethnicity and (b) regular harassment, violence and torture by arms of the State. For the SC and ST population, therefore, the violence of poverty, hunger and abysmal living conditions has been complemented and worsened by the structural violence that they encounter daily. It is the combination of the two, general poverty and the brutality and injustice of the age old caste system, kept alive by countless social practices despite numerous legislative measures by the Indian state, that makes this the most economically deprived and socially marginalized section of the Indian population. This social discrimination, humiliation and oppression is of course very faithfully reflected in the behavior of the police and other law-enforcing agencies of the State towards the poor SC and ST population, who are constantly harassed, beaten up and arrested on the slightest pretext. For this population, therefore, the State has not only totally neglected their economic and social development, it is an oppressor and exploiter. While the SC and ST population together account for close to a quarter of the Indian population, they are the overwhelming majority in the areas where the Indian government proposes to carry out its military offensive against alleged Maoist rebels. This, then, is the social background of the current conflict.
This brings us to the third dimension of the problem: unprecedented attack on the access of the marginalized and poor to common property resources. Compounding the persistent poverty and the continuing structural violence has been the State's recent attempt to usurp the meager resource base of the poor and marginalized, a resource base that was so far largely outside the ambit of the market. The neoliberal turn in the policy framework of the Indian state since the mid 1980s has, therefore, only further worsened the problems of economic vulnerability and social deprivation. Whatever little access the poor had to forests, land, rivers, common pastures, village tanks and other common property resources to cushion their inevitable slide into poverty and immiserization has come under increasing attack by the Indian state in the guise of so-called development projects: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and other "development" projects related to mining, industrial development, Information Technology parks, etc. Despite numerous protests from people and warnings from academics, the Indian State has gone ahead with the establishment of 531 SEZs. The SEZs are areas of the country where labour and tax laws have been consciously weakened, if not totally abrogated by the State to "attract" foreign and domestic capital; SEZs, almost by definition, require a large and compact tract of land, and thus inevitably mean the loss of land, and thus livelihood, by the peasantry. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no serious, rigorous cost-benefit analysis of these projects to date; but this does not prevent the government from claiming that the benefits of these projects, in terms of employment generation and income growth, will far outweigh the costs of revenue loss from foregone taxes and lost livelihoods due to the assault on land.
The opposition to the acquisition of land for these SEZ and similar projects have another dimension to it. Dr. Walter Fernandes, who has studied the process of displacement in post-independence India in great detail, suggests that around 60 million people have faced displacement between 1947 and 2004; this process of displacement has involved about 25 million hectares of land, which includes 7 million hectares of forests and 6 million hectares of other common property resources. How many of these displaced people have been resettled? Only one in every three. Thus, there is every reason for people not tobelieve the government's claims that those displaced from their land will be, in any meaningful sense, resettled. This is one of the most basic reasons for the opposition to displacement and dispossession.
But, how have the rich done during this period of unmitigated disaster for the poor? While the poor have seen their incomes and purchasing power tumble down precipitously in real terms, the rich have, by all accounts, prospered beyond their wildest dreams since the onset of the liberalization of the Indian economy. There is widespread evidence from recent research that the levels of income and wealth inequality in India has increased steadily and drastically since the mid 1980s. A rough overview of this growing inequality is found by juxtaposing two well known facts: (a) in 2004-05, 77 percent of the population spent less than Rs. 20 a day on consumption expenditure; and (b) according to the annual World Wealth Report released by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini in 2008, the millionaire population in India grew in 2007 by 22.6 per cent from the previous year, which is higher than in any other country in the world.
It is, thus, the development disaster of the Indian State, the widening levels of disparity and the continuing problems of social deprivation and structural violence when compounded by the all-out effort to restrict access to common property resources that, according to the Expert Group of the Planning Commission, give rise to social anger, desperation and unrest. In almost all cases the affected people try to ventilate their grievances using peaceful means of protest; they take our processions, they sit on demonstrations, they submit petitions. The response of the State is remarkably consistent in all these cases: it cracks down on the peaceful protestors, sends in armed goons to attack the people, slaps false charges against the leaders and arrests them and often also resorts to police firing and violence to terrorize the people. We only need to remember Singur, Nandigram, Kalinganagar and countless other instances where peaceful and democratic forms of protest were crushed by the state with ruthless force. It is, thus, the action of the State that blocks off all forms of democratic protest and forces the poor and dispossessed to take up arms to defend their rights, as has been pointed out by social activists like Arundhati Roy. The Indian government's proposed military offensive will repeat that story all over again. Instead of addressing the source of the conflict, instead of addressing the genuine grievances of the marginalized people along the three dimensions that we have pointed to, the Indian state seems to have decided to opt for the extremely myopic option of launching a military offensive.
It is also worth remembering that the geographical terrain, where the government's military offensive is planned, is very well-endowed with natural resources like minerals, forest wealth, biodiversity and water resources, and has of late been the target of systematic usurpation by several large, both Indian and foreign, corporations. So far, the resistance of the local indigenous people against their displacement and dispossession has prevented the government-backed corporates from exploiting the natural resources for their own profits and without regard to ecological and social concerns. We fear that the government's offensive is also an attempt to crush such democratic and popular resistance against dispossession and impoverishment; the whole move seems to be geared towards facilitating the entry and operation of these large corporations and paving the way for unbridled exploitation of the natural resources and people of these regions.
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Indian Premier League
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| Indian Premier League | |
|---|---|
 Logo of the Indian Premier League | |
| Countries | India |
| Administrator | BCCI |
| Headquarter | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Format | Twenty20 |
| First tournament | 2008 |
| Last tournament | 2010 |
| Tournament format | Double round-robin and Knockout |
| Number of teams | 8 |
| Current champion |  Chennai Super Kings |
| Most successful |  Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings (1 title each) |
| Qualification | Twenty20 Champions League |
| Most runs | Suresh Raina (1375)[1] |
| Most wickets | R. P. Singh (51)[2] |
| Website | IPLT20.com |
The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquartered in Mumbai[3][4] and supervised by BCCI Vice President Chirayu Amin, chairman & commissioner for IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It presently includes 8 teams (franchises) consisting of players from different countries. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League.[5]
In 2010, IPL became the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website YouTube.[6] Its brand value was estimated to be around $4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) the same year.[7][8] According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro rata basis, second only to the NBA. It is estimated that the average salary of an IPL player over a year would be £2.5 million.[9]
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[edit] History
[edit] First season
The inaugural season of the tournament started on 18 April 2008 and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. The final was played in DY Patil Stadium, Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Every team played each other both at home and away in a round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings in a last ball thriller and emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.
[edit] Second season
The 2009 season coincided with the general elections in India. Owing to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament remained the same as the inaugural one. Deccan Chargers, who finished last in the first season, came out as eventual winners defeating the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final.
[edit] Third season
The third season opened in January 2010 with the auction for players. 66 players were on offer but only 11 players were sold. In this season, defending Champions Deccan Chargers did not play at their preferred home location of Hyderabad or Visakhapatnam due to the ongoing political crisis in the region. The new bases for the champions this season were Nagpur, Navi Mumbai and Cuttack. Four teams qualified for the semi-finals. The first semi-final was won by Mumbai Indians who defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by 35 runs. Chennai Super Kings defeated Deccan Chargers in the second semi-final. The final was played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. Chennai Super Kings won by a margin of 22 runs.
[edit] Fourth season
On 21 March 2010, at Chennai it was announced that 2 new teams from Pune and Kochi will be added to the IPL from next season. This will increase the number of franchises from 8 to 10 and the number of matches from 60 to 94 if the same format is used. However, the bid around the Kochi franchisee turned controversial resulting in the resignation of minister, Shashi Tharoor from the Central Government and investigations by various departments of the Government of India into the financial dealings of IPL and the other existing franchisees. Later, Lalit Modi was also removed from IPL chairmanship by BCCI.
[edit] Franchises
The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.[10] While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million.[11]
On 21 March 2010, Pune and Kochi were unveiled as the two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The base price was $225 million. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. The process was to have been completed on March 7 but was postponed by two weeks after many bidders and the BCCI objected to stiff financial clauses.[12] The second franchise auction fetched total $703 million.
Franchise | Owner(s) | Captain | Price (USD) | Price (Rupees) | Location Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mumbai Indians | Mukesh Ambani (Owner of Reliance Industries) | Sachin Tendulkar | $ 112.9 m | Rs. 445 Cr |   Pune* Kochi* IPL Franchises (* - Starting 2011) |
 Royal Challengers Bangalore | Vijay Mallya (UB Group) | Anil Kumble | $ 111.6 m | Rs. 440 Cr | |
| Deccan Chargers | Deccan Chronicle (Gayatri Reddy) | Adam Gilchrist | $ 107.0 m | Rs. 422 Cr | |
| Chennai Super Kings | India Cements (N.Srinivasan) | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | $ 91.90 m | Rs. 359 Cr | |
 Delhi Daredevils | GMR Group | Gautam Gambhir | $ 84.0 m | Rs. 331 Cr | |
 Kings XI Punjab | Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, Mohit Burman , Gaurav Burman (Dabur), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group), Aditya and Arvind Khanna | Kumar Sangakkara | $ 76.0 m | Rs. 300 Cr | |
 Kolkata Knight Riders | Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and Jai Mehta) | Sourav Ganguly | $ 75.1 m | Rs. 296 Cr | |
| Rajasthan Royals | Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and co.), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra, Suresh and Kavita Chellaram | Shane Warne | $ 67.0 m | Rs. 264 Cr | |
| Pune | Sahara | - | $ 370.0 m | Rs 1,702 Cr | |
| Kochi | Rendezvous Sports Limited | - | $ 333.0 m | Rs 1,572 Cr |
[edit] Winners
| Season | Winners | Runners-up | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Rajasthan Royals | Chennai Super Kings | 8 |
| 2009 | Deccan Chargers | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 |
| 2010 | Chennai Super Kings | Mumbai Indians | 8 |
[edit] Performance of teams
| Team | Span | Titles | Matches | Won | Lost | No Result | Win % | For (r/o) | Against (r/o) | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Deccan Chargers | |||||||||||
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| Royal Challengers Bangalore |
[edit] Player signings
The first players' auctions were held on 2008. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag. VVS Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers) more money to bid for players.[13] For the second season, auctions were also held, but free signings taking place in the off-season by franchises led to calls for a draft-like system where the lowest ranked teams would be given a first opportunity to sign players.
[edit] Television rights and sponsorships
The IPL is predicted to bring the BCCI income of approximately US$1.6 billion, over a period of five to ten years. All of these revenues are directed to a central pool, 40% of which will go to IPL itself, 54% to franchisees and 6% as prize money. The money will be distributed in these proportions until 2017, after which the share of IPL will be 50%, franchisees 45% and prize money 5%. The IPL signed up Kingfisher Airlines as the official umpire partner for the series in a Rs. 106 crore (approximately £15 million) deal. This deal sees the Kingfisher Airlines brand on all umpires' uniforms and also on the giant screens during third umpire decisions.[14]
[edit] Television rights
On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.[15] The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US $1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US $918 million for the television broadcast rights and US $108 million for the promotion of the tournament.[16] This deal was challenged in the Bombay High Court by IPL, and got the ruling on its side. After losing the battle in court, Sony Entertainment Television signed a new contract with BCCI with Sony Entertainment Television paying Rs 8,700 crore (US$ 1.85 billion) for 10 years. One of the reasons for payment of this huge amount is seen as the money required to subsidize IPL's move to South Africa which will be substantially more than the previous IPL. IPL had agreed to subsidize the difference in operating cost between India and South Africa as it decided to move to the African nation after the security concerns raised because of its coincidence with India's general elections.
20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012, after which the IPL would go public and list its shares (But recently in March 2010, IPL decided not to go public).[17]
Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world.
On 4 March 2010 ITV announced it had secured the United Kingdom television rights for the 2010 Indian Premier League. ITV will televise 59 of the 60 IPL matches on its ITV4 free to air channel.[18]
| Winning Bidder | Regional Broadcast Rights | Terms of Deal |
|---|---|---|
| Sony/World Sport Group |  India | 10 years at Rs 8,700 crore (US$ 1.85 billion) (revised)[15] |
| ONE HD |  Australia: Free-to-air HD and SD television. Owned by Network TEN. | 5 years at AUD 10-15 Million.[19] |
| Sky Network Television |  New Zealand | Terms not released |
| PCCW |  Hong Kong: Broadcast on Now Sports. | 2 years, terms not released. |
| StarHub |  Singapore: Broadcast on Cricket Extra. | Terms not released |
| Astro |  Malaysia: Broadcast Astro Box Office Sport. | Terms not released |
| SuperSport | Central Africa | Terms not released |
| Arab Digital Distribution |  United Arab Emirates,  Bahrain,  Iraq,  Jordan,  Kuwait,  Lebanon,  Oman,  Qatar,  Palestine,  Saudi Arabia,  Syria,  Turkey,  Algeria,  Morocco,  Tunisia,  Egypt,  Sudan,  Libya,  NigeriaBroadcast rights on ADD's CricOne | 10 Years, terms not released.[20] |
| GEO Super |  Pakistan | Terms not released |
| Willow TV | Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America. | 5 years, terms not released.[21] |
| DirecTV |  United States: Exclusive broadcast rights on CricketTicket. | Terms not released |
| Asian Television Network |  Canada: Aired on Pay-per-view channel. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well. | 5 years, terms not released.[22] |
| SportsMax |  Caribbean | Terms not released |
| ITV |  United Kingdom: Broadcast on ITV4. | Terms not released |
[edit] Sponsorships
India's biggest property developer DLF Group paid US$50 million to be the title sponsor of the tournament for 5 years from 2008 to 2013.[23]
Other five-year sponsorship agreements include a deal with motorcycle maker Hero Honda worth $22.5-million, one with PepsiCo worth $12.5-million, and a deal with beer and airline conglomerate Kingfisher at $26.5-million.[24]
[edit] Revenue and Profits
The UK-based brand consultancy, Brand Finance, has valued the IPL at Rs 18,500 crore (US$ 3.94 billion) in 2010.[25] It was valued at U$2.01 billion in 2009 by the same consultancy.[26]
There are disputed figures for the profitability of the teams. One analyst said that four teams out of the eight made a profit in 2009.[27] While the London Times said that all but Kings XI Punjab made a profit.[28]
In 2010, the IPL expects to have 80 official merchandising deals. It has signed a deal with Swiss watchmaker Bandelier to make official watches for the IPL.[29]
According to a recent study by a UK-based brand valuation consultancy, the brand value of the IPL has more than doubled to USD 4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) from USD 2.01 billion in 2009.[30]
The franchises have been a part of this growth. Chennai Super Kings, who were ranked fourth last year, has emerged the most valued franchise in 2010. The CSK franchise has moved up the ladder to number one with a valuation of USD 48.4 million. The Kolkata Knight Riders co-owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan comes in second with a valuation of USD 46 million and the Rajasthan Royals, co-owned by Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty comes in third with USD 45.2 million. The Royal Challengers Bangalore, owned by Vijay Mallya, is ranked fourth with a valuation of USD 41.9 million and is followed by the Mumbai Indians (USD 40.8 million), Delhi Daredevils (USD 40.5 million) and Kings XI Punjab ( USD 36.1 million). The Deccan Chargers are at the base with a valuation of USD 34.4 million.[31]
| Rank | Franchise | Brand Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chennai Super Kings | $ 48.4 m |
| 2 | Kolkata Knight Riders | $ 46 m |
| 3 | Rajasthan Royals | $ 45.2 m |
| 4 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | $ 41.9 m |
| 5 | Mumbai Indians | $ 40.8 m |
| 6 | Delhi Daredevils | $ 40.5 m |
| 7 | Kings XI Punjab | $ 36.1 m |
| 8 | Deccan Chargers | $ 34.4 m |
[edit] Official IPL Mobile Applications
DCI Mobile Studios (A division of Dot Com Infoway Limited), in conjunction with Sigma Ventures of Singapore, have jointly acquired the rights to be the exclusive Mobile Application partner and rights holder for the Indian Premier League cricket matches worldwide for the next 8 years (including the 2017 season). Recently, they have released the IPL T20 Mobile applications for iPhone, Nokia Smartphones and Blackberry devices. Soon it will be made available across all other major Mobile platforms including the Android, Windows Mobile, Palm & others.[32]
[edit] Global following
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In India, the IPL has become one of the most popular events of the year[33]. In the first season, games were played every night (including weekdays) during Indian prime-time and were broadcast live. The IPL was the most watched TV program in India.
IPL drew positive reactions from the rest of the world also. In Pakistan, the reception was described as "massive". The matches were telecast live in GEO Super. The matches also generated interest in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, despite only one Bangladeshi player being involved. The following in the subcontinental nations was aided by the prime time telecast of the matches as they belong to adjacent time zones.
The IPL became a big hit in South Africa due to a large composition of South Asians in their population.Another reason for the success is that the second edition of IPL was hosted at South Africa drawing massive crowds from the country as well as the other countries in the subcontinent.
The IPL did not garner much interest in Australia and New Zealand due to time differences. However, in recent times the IPL has gained a much larger fan-base in these two countries.
Snap polls indicated that more than 48 million people watched the telecast of the IPL 2008 final between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, more than 40 million people saw the Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils match, whereas the second semi-final between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab attracted an audience of 29 million.[34]
The third season of IPL saw interest rise dramatically in the United Kingdom. This was, in part, due to TV coverage switching to free to view channel ITV4. Previous editions of IPL were aired on the now defunct channel Setanta (pay to view channel), which entered administration in 2009. James Macleod stated, "We are delighted with the viewing figures for the IPL so far. The ratings for ITV4s coverage have been around seven or eight times those achieved by Setanta last year, and we're delighted to be bringing the competition to a wider audience". Lalit Modi, former Chairman and Commissioner of IPL, also expressed immense satisfaction on the way IPL has been accepted by the British audience. "ITV beats Sky Sports over the weekend in number of viewers. This is great going. The ITV numbers are double that of rugby league. This is huge by all imaginations. UK figures for viewership on ITV already 10 times that of last year. This is just fantastic news," he said.[35][36]
[edit] Rules
There are five ways that a franchise can acquire a player. In the annual auction, buying domestic players, signing uncapped players, through trading and buying replacements.[37][38] In the trading window the player can only be traded with his consent. The franchise will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the franchise selling the player.[39]
Some of the Team composition rules are:
- Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
- No more than 8 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.For the 2009 edition franchises are allowed 10 foreign players in the squad. The number allowed in the playing XI remains unchanged at 4.
- As this is domestic cricket so minimum of 8 local players must be included in each squad.
- A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each squad.
Some of the differences to international Twenty20 cricket:
- A difference to international cricket is a timeout. It gives the players an opportunity to strategise and take a drink during the strict 2 minutes, 30 seconds time limit. Each team is awarded two timeouts per innings totalling to four timeouts for the whole game. The teams can take the timeout when instructed, but is necessary to take it at the end of 9th and 16th over.
- IPL is also known for having commercials during the game, hence there is no time limit for teams to complete their innings. However, there may be a penalty if the umpires find teams misusing this privilege at their own choice.
The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $5 million. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $20,000 while for others it is US $50,000. The most expensive players in the IPL to date are Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen at US $1.55 million each.
[edit] Official website
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The IPL negotiated a contract with the Canadian company Live Current Media Inc. to run and operate its portals and the minimum guarantee has been negotiated at US $50 million over the next 10 years.[40] The official website of the tournament is www.iplt20.com.
Incorporating popular forms of social media into the third season of the IPL, the website now contains a more holistic presence across all online mediums. The website apart from featuring new additions to empower user interaction, has encouraged a wider range of websites around IPL like IPL Tracker [1] and IPL Mag [2] amongst other more traditional reporting websites.
[edit] Statistics and records
[edit] Controversies
The BCCI had found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of the IPL. The main point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season. To address this, the BCCI officially requested that the ICC institute a time period in the International Future Tours Program solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC.[41]
[edit] Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board
Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players. The ECB made it abundantly clear that they would not sign No Objection Certificates for players—a prerequisite for playing in the IPL. Chairmen of the county clubs also made it clear that players contracted to them were required to fulfill their commitment to their county. As a result of this, Dimitri Mascarenhas was the only English player to have signed with the IPL for the 2008 season.[42]
A result of the ECB's concerns about players joining the IPL, was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league — titled the English Premier League — would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season.[43] The ECB enlisted the aid of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford to launch the proposed league.[44] Stanford was the brains behind the successful Stanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in the West Indies. On 17 February 2009, when news of the fraud investigation against Stanford became public, the ECB and WICB withdrew from talks with Stanford on sponsorship.[45][46] On February 20 the ECB announced it has severed its ties with Stanford and cancelled all contracts with him.[47]
[edit] Conflicts with Cricket Australia
The BCCI also experienced run-ins with Cricket Australia (CA) over player availability for Australia's 2008 tour of the West Indies and CA's desire for global protection of their sponsors. CA had feared that sponsors of the IPL (and its teams) that directly competed with their sponsors would jeopardize already existing arrangements. This issue was eventually resolved[48] and it was also agreed upon that Australian players would be fully available for the West Indies tour.
[edit] Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board
Many players from the Pakistan Cricket Team who were not offered renewed central contracts (or decided to reject new contracts) decided to join the rival Indian Cricket League (ICL). Two such players—Naved-ul-Hasan and Mushtaq Ahmed also held contracts with English Counties. The PCB decided to issue No Objection Certificates for these players to play with their county teams on the basis that since they were no longer contracted to the PCB, there was no point in not granting them their NOCs. The latter did not sit well with the BCCI, as it went against the hard line stance they had taken on players who joined the ICL.[citation needed]
After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Pakistan government deemed it unsafe for its players to travel to India for the IPL. However, when the IPL was shifted to South Africa, the Pakistani players requested the IPL organizers and Lalit Modi to allow them to play but they refused by reasoning that the squads had already been decided and there was no room for Pakistani players.[citation needed]
Recently in the 2010 IPL auction nobody bid on any of the Pakistani cricketers, despite having expressed an interest in them therefore having them put on the auction list. Initially they said that the decision was purely based on cricket , Pakistani team had won the 2009 T20 World Cup. There was speculation that the Pakistanis might have been denied visas, so a team would waste money by recruiting them. After questioning, the IPL board members said that the reasoning behind none of the Pakistani players being selected was simply natural and unaffected by any outside influences.
[edit] Conflicts with other Boards
Smaller boards like the WICB and NZCB have raised concerns over the impact the IPL will have on their player development and already fragile financial situation. Since players from smaller cricketing nations are not compensated as much, they have more motivation to join the IPL.[citation needed]
[edit] Media restrictions
Initially the IPL enforced strict guidelines to media covering Premier League matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in North America use in regards to media coverage. Notable guidelines imposed included the restriction to use images taken during the event unless purchased from cricket.com, owned by Live Current Media Inc (who won the rights to such images) and the prohibition of live coverage from the cricket grounds. Media agencies also had to agree to upload all images taken at IPL matches to the official website. This was deemed unacceptable by print media around the world. Upon the threat of boycott, the IPL eased up on several of the restrictions.[49] On 15 April 2008 a revised set of guidelines offering major concessions to the print media and agencies was issued by the IPL and accepted by the Indian Newspaper Society.[50]
[edit] Conflict with Cricket Club of India
As per IPL rules, the winner of the previous competition decides the venue for the finals.[51] In 2009, the reigning Champions, Deccan Chargers chose the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.[51] However, a dispute regarding use of the pavilion meant that no IPL matches could be held there. The members of the Cricket Club of India that owns the stadium have the sole right to the pavilion on match days, whereas the IPL required the pavilion for its sponsors.[52] The members were offered free seats in the stands, however the club rejected the offer, stating that members could not be moved out of the pavilion.[51][53][54]
[edit] Betting
There have been wide ranging allegations of betting throughout the tournament. Up to $11 billion was reportedly bet on games throughout the tournament, mainly during the second edition.[55]
[edit] Suspension of Lalit Modi
On 25 April 2010, the BCCI suspended Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, for "alleged acts of individual misdemeanours". The suspension notice was served on him by Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice-president, and N Srinivasan, the board secretary, sending an e-mail to the same effect. It followed a day of negotiations with interlocutors attempting to persuade Modi to resign but pre-empted a potentially flashpoint at a scheduled IPL governing council meeting, which Modi had said he would attend. Modi was officially barred from participating in the affairs of the Board, the IPL and any other committee of the BCCI.[56]
[edit] Chirayu Amin named IPL interim chairman
Chirayu Amin, an industrialist and head of the Baroda Cricket Association, was named interim chairman of the IPL by the BCCI, following Lalit Modi's suspension.[57] According to BCCI, many important documents were missing from the IPL and BCCI offices. "Many of the records are missing. The IT is asking for documents. We don't have them. We have asked BCCI CAO Prof Ratnakar Shetty to look into the missing records and papers," said BCCI President Shashank Manohar.[58]
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[edit] External links
- IPL Official Website
- IPL channel at YouTube
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