"The modalities of the pension scheme will be worked out shortly by an empowered executive committee and the cut off date has been fixed as March 31, 2004," VCA president Sudhir Dabir said here.
The proposal to introduce the scheme was approved at the annual general body meeting of the VCA held recently.
When asked about the number of players eligible for the scheme, Dabir said that there were about 268 former Ranji Trophy players who had represented Vidarbha in various zonal and national level tournament but the actual figure eligible for pension would be 94 looking to the criteria and the cut off date.
"As per the plan, we are involving all those senior members of the VCA who came forward with the proposal in the process to finalise the modalities of pension scheme," he said adding it should be finalised within two months.
However, "a section of players who had initially played for Vidarbha and later moved to Indian Railways will be excluded from the pension scheme," the association's media incharge Rajan Nair, who is also a former Ranji Trophy all rounder and currently in the BCCI media committee, said.
The VCA was contemplating to extend the pension of Rs5000 per month to each former Ranji player and approximately would bear a financial burden of Rs 50 lakh per annum, the association sources said.
Similarly, those players who are already drawing pension from the BCCI will not be eligible for VCA pension as they are receiving an amount of Rs10,000 per month, they added.
The VCA, which has recently constructed a 45,000 capacity-stadium at Jamatha village on the busy Nagpur-Wardha road, has received accolades from players, teams, managers, umpires and also cricket bodies like the BCCI and the ICC.
Unfortunately, the VCA has failed to produce any world class players all these years.
Umesh Yadav, hailing from a small township of Walni, was picked up for India series against the Zimbabwe. He was also selected as a replacement for West Indies tour but failed to make it due to non-completion of his travel documents.
Similarly, Nagpur's own Prashant Vaidya has played for India but that time he represented Bengal.
Though there are no test players from Vidarbha, it has produced three BCCI presidents.
Barrister SK Wankhede, the then minister in Maharashtra and Speaker of the state Legislative Assembly who remained the president of the apex body from 1980 to 1982.
Later, veteran Congress leader and former Union minister NK Salve succeeded Wankhede from 1982 to 1985.
After a span of 23 years, prominent city lawyer Shashank Manohar got elected to the post. The incumbent BCCI president and his father, former advocate general of the state, have remained presidents of the VCA.
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