mumbai taking a dig at the bcci again sports minister ajay maken said he was wondered why the cricket board officials were opposed to the proposed sports bill if they were transparent in their functioningthe bcci has sent a 2627 page letter to the ministry saying why they officials were opposed to the proposed sports bill i dont understand why the bcci if they are not scared of rti or transparency are not prepared to come under it said maken during his speech at the indian merchants chamberorganised seminar fusion 2012 on sports media and entertainment on wednesdaymaken who was the chief guest said that transparency was the main focus of the proposed bill which has been opposed tooth and nail by not only the bcci but also by the indian olympic associationtransparency is the main thing in the sports bill rti will bring the muchneeded transparency bcci gets exemption from the government in many ways like tax use of police servicesipl indian premier league which is a form of entertainment does not attract entertainment tax in many states he pointed outspeaking on the sidelines later maken came out in support of the underfire indian cricket team and pointed out that the same squad had won the world cup leading to celebrations all over the country less than a year agoour players do well at times and perform badly on others when they do badly we should not forget their good performances less than a year ago they had won the world cup and the entire nation celebrated maken notedmaken said one of the main targets of the ministry in the runup to the london olympic games later this year was to see that the number of athletes who qualify exceeded the number who made the grade in beijing four years agoa total of 732 core probables had been selected towards qualification some time back at the last olympics in beijing 57 persons qualified our aim is to better that number maken saidwe have spent rs 111 crore so far including rs 55 crore to give foreign exposure to the sports persons we are ready to give more help to them to qualify the sports minister saidasked about the continuing standoff between hockey india the body which has been recognised by the international hockey federation and the ageold indian hockey federation maken said these two rivals have to sort out their differences once the olympic qualifiers in delhi later this month gets overhi and ihf should sort out the matter after the olympic qualifiers he saidamong the panel speakers at the seminar were former hockey internationals mir ranjan negi and sybil dmellonegi laid the blame squarely on the countrys sports administrators for the poor show by indian sportspersons in the international arena overallin 1998 the indian mens hockey team won the asian games gold in bangkok after 32 years but what happened after it returned seven players including skipper dhanraj pillay were axed and the two coaches were also