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Mumbai, July 20: Test cricketers and umpires
have reasons to rejoice as their daily allowance on tours and
benevolent fund payments respectively will see an upward
revision. The Cricket Board's finance committee which met here
today under the chairmanship of Sudhir Nanavati, has decided to
increase the players' daily allowance for overseas trips from
the current $ 50 to $ 70.
The Cricket Board's finance committee which
met here today under the chairmanship of Sudhir Nanavati, has
decided to increase the players' daily allowance for overseas
trips from the current $ 50 to $ 70. "It was also decided that
the monthly welfare scheme measures payable to players and
umpires would henceforth be called benevolent fund payment,
instead of pension, and the monthly payment to Test umpires have
been increased from Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000," BCCI sources said.
"Test cricketers' monthly benevolent fund
payment remains the same at Rs 35,000," the sources said. "All
these decisions of the sub-committee would have to be ratified
by the BCCI's working committee," they added.
Apart from Nanavati and convenor N Srinivasan,
the BCCI's treasurer, the meeting was attended by committee
members Aslam Ghoni (North Zone), Chetan Desai (South), Arindam
Ganguly (East), Ravi Savant (West), K C Jena (Central) and the
board's CAO Prof Ratnakar Shetty. (Agencies)
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