New Delhi (PTI): In a sweeping change in the appointment of national selectors, the BCCI has decided to empower its president to have a final say in choosing the panel of selectors.

The Board, in its recent Working Committe meeting in Mumbai, has decided to retain the five-member selection committee but, according to top sources, it will no longer be mandatory for the BCCI president to accept the nominees put up by the respective zones at the Annual General Meeting.

"The age-old system of the zonal representatives holding meetings on the eve of the Board's AGM to decide the name of selector from their respective zones has been done away with.

From the coming AGM, the final decision on the appointment of national selectors will wrest with the BCCI president," a top source told PTI.

"The zonal representatives have the liberty to suggest names but the president of the Board has the authority to accept or veto their decisions since the selectors become employees of the Board," the source said.

This was done to make national senior and junior selectors more accountable in the selection of players that should reflect the positive results as India is co-hosting the 2011 World Cup.