All India Football Federation (AIFF) has revived its technical committee by appointing former Indian Football captain Baichung Bhutia as its Chairman and replacing other members as well.
Bhutia is the first active footballer to be heading the panel, replacing technical director Mohammed Habib.
Subrata Dutta, AIFF vice-president "AIFF President Praful Patel has made Bhutia's appointment after the executive committee authorized him".
Former footballers Parminder Singh, Prasun Banerjee and Henry Menzes along with officials Lalnghinglova Hmar and Savio Messias are the other members of the committee.
The insiders in the AIFF see it as a marketing gimmick to project Bhutia as the face of Indian football. If that is so then Bhutia will have to have a larger role than merely presiding over a committee that in the past had little to do.
Strangely, no one in the AIFF secretariat could either recollect the names of the Viswanathan-headed panel or the recommendations it has made.
It will be interesting to see what will be Bhutia panel's role and how it will complement with the Dutch Robert Bann, who is AIFF's technical director.
36-year-old Baichung retired from the international football in 2011.
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