Why Does Team India Still Use British-era Logo? Poser to PMO

The BCCI logo on the Indian cricket team jersey resembles the ‘Star of India’ – an honour given by the British to their preferred princes during the colonial times, says the poser

New Delhi: A poser by the Central Information Commission (CIC) to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the ministries of sports and law is asking why the Indian cricket team is still using a colonial era logo.The BCCI logo on the Indian cricket team jersey resembles the ‘Star of India’ – an honour given by the British to their preferred princes during the colonial times, says the poser.The Commission also said that the symbol of the BCCI is similar to the representation of the star of the order on the mantle of British Raj.”After the First War of Indian Independence in 1857, to consolidate its sovereignty over India, the British Crown created a new order of knighthood to honour loyal Indian princes. No such honours were given after 1948. Did anybody notice that the BCCI is still hanging on to this colonial legacy, ‘symbolically’, and our team flags this logo even today,” the CIC asked, reported PTI.

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He asked why the government does not change the logo to a truly Indian symbol with either tricolour or four lions or Ashoka’s Dharm Chakra or any other decided by it.The BCCI logo on the Indian cricket team jersey resembles the ‘Star of India’ – an honour given by the British to their preferred princes during the colonial times”In a stern order, the Commission has also sought to know from these authorities to explain why the government is not bringing the Board of Control for Cricket of India (BCCI) under the RTI Act despite saying so in a Lok Sabha response.The questions are among five such queries on which the transparency panel has sought an explanation from these authorities.”Why the BCCI is still using the logo designed by British Raj in 1928 which resembles 90% the symbol of star of India given by British Raj to his loyal princes…,”Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said in an order issued on the plea of activist Subhash Agrawal.He also directed the public authorities to disclose the status of a bill to prevent sports fraud and match fixing.”Why sports frauds like match fixing and betting are not prohibited and action was not being taken effectively,” Acharyulu asked the PMO and the ministries.He also asked them to disclose why the government is not bringing a uniform policy for rewarding winning international sports persons to prevent unhealthy competition for publicity among various governments.In 2012, the then UPA government had planned to introduce a bill to curb match fixing and sports fraud.”…the government has proposed to bring all the National Sports Federations including BCCI under the RTI Act in the proposed Draft National Sports Development Bill with provision of exclusion clause protecting personal/confidential information relating to athletes,” a Lok Sabha response in 2012 has said.Why does the government does not change the logo to a truly Indian symbol with either tricolour or four lions or Ashoka’s Dharm Chakra or any other decided by it”

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Teams:

India playing XI: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni(w), Hardik Pandya, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah

Pakistan playing XI: Azhar Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed(w/c), Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Junaid Khan

(With inputs from PTI)