Summary:
In the process, clubs and educational institutions that were previously full members were reduced to associate members without voting rights. Acting on it, the high court had on February 4 issued a notice to the OCA to file a counter-affidavit by February 18. All 70 full members will be governed under the 'one member, one vote' rule.Earlier, each district had three votes, the clubs had two votes each and educational institutions had a vote each.The OCA had come under flak from the city's clubs after the submission of the amended bye-law that reduced them to associate members without voting rights.The controversy reached the high court, with the Cuttack-based Sunrise Club challenging the deletion of clubs from the full membership of the OCA. CUTTACK: In a departure from its earlier exercise, the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) has included clubs and educational institutions as full members with voting rights.The inclusion of 20 clubs and 16 educational institutions, including eleven schools, as full members with voting rights has been made by incorporating fresh amendments to the amended bye-law of the OCA.In pursuance of a Supreme Court directive, a five-member working committee of the OCA had reworked the existing bye-law to mirror the new BCCI constitution approved by the apex court. "In the process, clubs and educational institutions have been included and the number of total full members with voting rights has gone up from 36 to 70," Pallai said on Tuesday.According to the bye-law with the fresh amendments, the 70 full members comprise 31 districts (including Bhubaneswar), the Rourkela Steel Plant, the East Coast Railway and the Paradip Port Trust, Ravenshaw University, KIIT, Stewart Science College, Christ College, SCB Medical College, 11 schools and 20 clubs..