Sachin Tendulkar, Ajinkya Rahane and Madhav Mantri from left to right. (FILA photo/MCA)“We have decided to allocate a designated lounge for them. So we have appointed a three-man committee to decide which area we can dedicate to them,” MCA president Ajinkya Naik said on the sidelines of MCA’s 87 AGM. The MCA has already named a stand in honour of Tendulkar, arguably the greatest it has produced, more than a decade ago. This will be another tribute to him.
In another major development, the MCA has decided to keep aside Rs 500 crore for grass-root cricket development. “For grass-root cricket, we have decided to allocate a corpus fund of 500 crores,” he said. Over the past years, it has risen from Rs 6 crore to 10 and 12 crore, before the association allocated Rs 100 crore last year. “But this time we have allocated Rs 500 crore for our grass-root cricketers and facilities like maidan clubs, school clubs, college clubs,” he added.