Asif Mahmud calls for better organisational structure to eek out corruption

Bangladesh's sports advisor Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain believes that Bangladesh Cricket Board directors should receive some kind of remuneration if they are performing executive duties in order to prevent corruption from the structure.

The BCB is yet to establish a proper organogram that can help the board work smoothly while the directors, who hold the post without being salaried, are often found out doing the job of executives without any remuneration whatsoever that many feels leads to corruption.

Asif echoed the same sentiment while having a chat with Cricbuzz recently.

"Bulbul bhai (BCB president Aminul Islam) informed me that the work is nearing completion as far as board organogram is concerned and once there's a proper organogram - showing who works under which stream after the CEO, giving employees a sense of motivation that if they work well, they will advance - and if that organogram is approved in the BCB AGM, I think this problem will be solved," said Asif.

"In government terms, this is called a 'block post' - one post blocked for a long time. Once the organogram is in place, this issue will be resolved. The BCB is such a large organization with hundreds of crores of budget, yet it doesn't even have a CFO or a GM. Filling these positions with more professional people will, I believe, solve most of BCB's problems," he said.

"The fact that directors currently have to engage at an executive level so extensively that will no longer be necessary. When a director works at an honourary post but spends a lot of time at the executive level, it structurally leads to corruption: 'I am giving so much time, what is the outcome?' Corruption has to be removed from the structure first," he said.

"I've also suggested that since directors don't receive a salary as directors, when they are engaged in executive-level work - like running committees or other tasks - they should at least be given some payment. Otherwise, they are structurally forced into corruption. When someone spends five to six hours daily, but no financial outcome is coming, corruption becomes structural. From that structural level arises bigger irregularities or corruption. Removing it from that structural level, and ensuring that anyone engaged at the executive level receives salary - that was my recommendation," he said.

Asif insisted that it can also be applicable for BCB president Aminul Islam, who left