new delhi the bccis eightmember committee on saturday deliberated on the issue of threeyear cooling off period with a couple of alternate suggestions including a 12year tenure for office bearers in the proposed draft bill of national sports codethe lodha panel reforms states that a cumulative period of nine years for any bcci officebearers separate 9 years for state units with threeyear cooling off between every termnothing was minuted but there were some alternate suggestions discussed one suggestion was officebearers can have two straight terms of four years total eight years followed by fouryear cooling off and a third final term of four yearsthis is what is there in national sports codes draft bill this was discussed at length a committee member told pti on conditions of anonymitythe other proposal was to have a straight nineyear term without any cooling offthis was also deliberated as some members felt that lets propose a full nineyear term without any breaks if 12 years with one break is unacceptable the committee member saidtenure has been an issue with a lot of officials including sourav ganguly who will have to relinquish his office on july 14 if one strictly adheres to lodha reformsganguly in fact joined the meeting via skype from kolkatait was learnt that one state one vote increasing the number of selectors from three to five are issues that will be mentionedfor niranjan shah the issue was age cap of 70 years and he has objections the source addedthe bccis acting secretary amitabh chaudhary said that they will have another meeting in mumbai on july 7 the second and last of this committee during which they will try to bring down the gamut of difficulties to three or fourwe are determined to translate the order of highest court of land we have a few difficulties which we will bring before committee of administrators coa and supreme court we have identified those difficulties as we travelled the distance today said chaudharytheres still however some distance left we will travel some distance on 7th of july thats the second and last meeting 2 pm mumbai on 7th the final die will be cast the former jharkhand top cop saidan issue cropped up wherein chaudhary and disqualified shah were seem to be pulling in different directions concerning latters technical status in the committeeshah today told reporters that he is a member of the committee while chaudhary later clarified that he is only a special inviteeasked about contrary statements chaudhary cut the discussions shortdont get into semantics on technical status of a person he saidon a different note chaudhary also informed that he will be checking the new application of coaches only after july 9i will check applications only after july 9 last date of receiving application the idea is to finalise a coach before indian team embarks on their tour of sri lankahe also said that anil kumbles dues have been cleared