BFF spent Tk 62.5 crore in 4 years

The Bangladesh Football Federation spent 62.5 crore taka in the last four years and has proposed another 21 crore taka for the 2012 calendar year.
The last meeting of the current BFF executive
committee, chaired by Kazi Salahuddin, approved the expenditures of four years and proposed a new budget yesterday in a bid to take it to the annual general meeting on April 30.
Member Anwarul Haq Helal revealed it to the reporters after emerging from a four-hour long meeting at the BFF House yesterday.
“From January 2008 to December 2011, the federation received 62.36 crore taka and spent 62.5 crore taka,” said Helal adding that the expenditure of the match between Argentina and Nigeria was kept out of this account.
He, however, could not disclose the year-by-year details but said that they proposed a 3-crore taka deficit budget for the year 2012 as they would get 17 crore taka from FIFA, AFC, sponsors Grameenphone and Islami Bank.
The yearly expenditure of the football governing body compared to the previous tenure of SA Sultan has doubled as the BFF had spent Tk 7 to 8 crore in a year according to Helal.
Ahead of the April 30 BFF election, the budget also gave priority to revive district football as Tk 1.5 crore has been kept to be disbursed among 64 districts to run the local league and Tk 1 crore has been kept for holding the National Football Championship which was never held in the last four years.
“Our plan is to provide Tk 5 lakh to each of district football association though we initially kept Tk 1.5 crore for them,” said BFF vice president Badal Roy.
Roy also informed the budget would increase when the BFF football academy in Sylhet would get underway in July as they did not include the proposed expenditure of the academy.