India shouldn't have become CWG host:

[Guynextdoor]

First watch at yourself !!!!How jealous you are, I can see your flames in every thread of PDf.. And you know what, I am pretty much sure that Majority of neighbours do not think in the way you does..


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India's bid motto was New Frontiers and Friendships.

Ya dude...new froniers in jhol and new friendships for loot maal. Bang on.

 

[0.o]

The preparations are not bad at all.
Its a different thing if the corrupt as$ politicians are eating money.
But not so much wrong witht the preparations though.
I live in Delhi myself.

 

[Spring Onion]

Anil Khanna resigns from CWG OC treasurer's post
PTI, Aug 5, 2010, 02.06pm IST

NEW DELHI: Already engulfed in a series of corruption charges, the CWG Organising Committee on Thursday faced more problems with its treasurer Anil Khanna resigning from the post in wake of allegations that his son's firm secured contract for laying synthetic courts at tennis stadium.

OC sources said that Khanna, also All India Tennis Association secretary, has put in his papers on moral grounds in view of the allegations.

Khanna's resignation came hours before the OC's all-powerful executive board's emergency meeting convened to discuss the corruption scandal that has rocked the October 3-14 Games.

The sources said that Khanna resigned after questions were raised that there could be a conflict of interest as his son Aditya's parent company, Rebound Ace, had got the contract for laying 14 synthetic surfaces at the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium.

Aditya is the CEO of the Indian branch of the Australian-based firm.

Reports also said that top Indian tennis players were unhappy with the re-laid synthetic surface which is believed to increase injury risk and rejected by Australian Open.

Khanna though had defended that he was not involved while granting the contract to the Australian firm.

Read more: Anil Khanna resigns from CWG OC treasurer's post - Top Stories - Commonwealth Games - Events & Tournaments - Sports - The Times of India Anil Khanna resigns from CWG OC treasurer's post - Top Stories - Commonwealth Games - Events & Tournaments - Sports - The Times of India

 

[d14gtc]

The preparations are not bad at all.
Its a different thing if the corrupt as$ politicians are eating money.
But not so much wrong witht the preparations though.
I live in Delhi myself.

Yep u cud tell better.... now we can only wish fr dem dat ve ur money in thr bum..bt jst dnt compromise with quality n repo f d nation

 

[Hafizzz]

Read this :

Crooks hijack Delhi Games
Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan

The Commonwealth Games in New Delhi this October are racing to a record of a non-athletic kind: the world's most corrupt sporting event.

More than 5,000 athletes from 71 countries and thousands of visitors are expected for the games, the 19th such event for countries formerly under British rule. Corruption scandals exposed in the past few days appear to be merely an indication of how funds have been sucked away from an extravaganza that is costing taxpayers up to US$7.5 billion - more than 1,500% over initial budgets given in parliament.

"It's bizarre," said Ralph Pais, a senior Mumbai-based media

professional and sports fan, voicing the incredulity and disgust of a nation. "Are they building stadiums or a city?"

"They" refers to the Indian Olympics Association and the Organizing Committee, two stakeholders that signed the hosting rights in Jamaica in 2003. Others in the mega mess include the London-based Commonwealth Games Federation, the Delhi state government and the Indian government.

Anil Khanna, the Games treasurer and head of the All India Tennis Association, resigned this week after reports claimed an Australian firm won the contract to lay tennis courts for the Games because his son headed its Indian arm. Khanna denies any wrongdoing. On the same day, the Games' joint directors general TS Darbari and M Jeyachandran, and deputy director general Sanjay Mohindroo, were suspended following an investigation into financial irregularities.

Where much of the $7.5 billion vanished is a bewildering question the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is trying to answer. CBI sleuths are probing allegations of bribery, over-billing, illegal commissions, improper contracts, substandard construction work - and perhaps millions of dollars siphoned off to secret bank accounts.

Bribery and other money-mischief are nearly routine in major sporting events, most famously in the bidding for the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. But the New Delhi event, to be held from October 3 to 14, appears to be in a league of its own.

Officials of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the top body for investigating government corruption, detected irregularities after inspecting 186 Games-related projects involving 128 agencies in the past two years. The works included construction of five stadiums, upgrades of six old ones, and building of a Games village and about 20 training venues.

A CVC report declared that "almost all" organizations executing works for the Games have quoted higher than market prices. "Despite higher rates," the report said, "poor site management, delays and quality compromises have been observed." Other detected fraud included tampering with sealed bid documents.

The CBI and the Comptroller and Auditor General are scrutinizing 16 Games-related projects for corruption, including contracts to buy overpriced goods.

Sports equipment, stadium chairs, air-conditioners, even soap dispensers and umbrellas, were marked up over market prices by an eye-popping 800% to 1,000%. Locally available treadmills, for instance, costing about US$8,600 each to buy, were allegedly rented from fictitious "foreign" firms for $21,000, for 45 days. In a turnaround, Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee secretary general Lalit Bhanot said athletics equipment such as treadmills will now be bought rather than rented, so as to leave a legacy of the games, Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday.

As whistleblowers expose more malpractice, insiders say the CBI has two years of work ahead sifting through what might be one of the world's biggest organized looting of public funds.

The corruption web stretches worldwide, with the CBI investigating firms in Australia and Britain, in alleged pay-offs for construction, supplying equipment and services. ATM Films, an obscure company in London, was paid $400,000 for renting sundries like portable toilets, mobile video screens and ambulances for the Queen's Baton Relay last October 29, without any written contract.

The mess has added firepower to those questioning if India should be hosting the Commonwealth Games, and if any public good would come out of it. Were the Games merely an excuse for politicians ruling sporting bodies to strut on the global stage, or, as is being revealed, to put in play Operation Loot?

Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah's in May released a damning, detailed 77-page report titled "The 2010 Commonwealth Games: Whose Wealth? Whose Commons?" Besides revealing glaring irregularities, bribery and costs escalation of the Games by 1,575 %, Justice Shah also studied the social cost. It showed the homeless, beggars and slum dwellers in New Delhi being harassed in governmental efforts to hide them from view.

The window-dressing is backfiring. "Hundreds of thousands displaced in New Delhi to make way for the Commonwealth Games" ran the headline of a Washington Post report on July 10.

"For the 11-day Games event, the government demolished the lives we built here over 18 years," 58-year-old vegetable seller Rehman Khan, whose house was smashed to make way for a Games project, told the Post.

A leading Indian footballer, Bhaichung Bhutia, joined the chorus of complaints on August 4. India should not have bid to host the Games, he said, when the country lacked even basic sporting infrastructure - such as sufficient playing grounds for children.

New Delhi residents are not impressed, either, by the way their lives have been disrupted during construction for apparently very poor results. "The stadiums are in terrible condition," says Sohini Paul, a senior project officer of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, a Delhi-based non-governmental organization. "It’s a shame to think the Games are going to be held there in less than two months."

India's sports minister, MS Gill, told parliament: "Most of the venues have already hosted test events without glitches. I have had a look at the stadiums, they are ready. Just the finishing work remains to be done."

On August 4, a silent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sat grimly through uproar in parliament over the Games scandal. An opposition party member called it "the Loot Games".

In the eye of the storm is Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the Organizing Committee and president of the Indian Olympic Association. Kalmadi a 66-year-old former air force pilot and Congress party member of parliament, defiantly rejected corruption charges.

The world of Indian sport is already well known to be infected by inefficient politicians heading sporting bodies, sometimes for decades thanks to sham elections, unaccountable and impervious to the fact that India has the worst Olympics record among major nations.

Kalmadi has been president of the Indian Olympic Association since 1996, has headed the Singapore-based Asian Athletics Association since 2001, and has been a lifetime president of the Athletics Federation of India since 2006.

Under Kalmadi’s watch, India won a total of five medals in the Sydney Olympics (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) combined - in contrast to China winning 222 medals, Japan 80 and South Korea 89 in those last three Olympics.

For decades, Indian sportsmen and women have complained about poor facilities and poorer treatment from officials. This week, even as more sordid details of the multi-billion dollar scam unfolded, the Indian rugby team for the Commonwealth Games complained they were given substandard food to eat.

There is much talk about India’s "prestige" in hosting the Commonwealth Games, but not just pride will be injured if a badly built stadium roof collapses on spectators and athletes this October. Given the picture that is emerging of how the Games have been organized so far, it's a risk that can't be ignored.

"Good Luck" in hosting the game.

 

[ChinaChina]

india cannt even host a tiny cwg properly and they want to bid for the olympics. please stop making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the world.

 

[gurjot]

india cannt even host a tiny cwg properly and they want to bid for the olympics. please stop making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the world.

let c,cwg is not tiny.

 

[Justin Joseph]

india cannt even host a tiny cwg properly and they want to bid for the olympics. please stop making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the world.

India have successfully host the very first Asiad in 1951 at that time china was not even born properly. So stop trolling.

Who says we can't host CWG?

And we are not bidding for Olympic, from where you get this fake news?? If you don't know the fact plz don't post bcoz it will end up making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the PDF.

 

[Justin Joseph]

let c,cwg is not tiny.

Its 2nd largest sports event in the world where players from 71 countries participate.

Our aim is different we want a goodwill and to show these 71 countries our power. So that in future we will lead them in international arena. And if you get votes of majority of 71 countries it will helpful at all times like UN security council membership etc.

 

[Guynextdoor]

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[Guynextdoor]

Its 2nd largest sports event in the world where players from 71 countries participate.

Our aim is different we want a goodwill and to show these 71 countries our power. So that in future we will lead them in international arena. And if you get votes of majority of 71 countries it will helpful at all times like UN security council membership etc.

-We've gotta hang that Kalmadi man- the a$$hole just isn't bothered about the country. To him it's just a big loot exercise. While I understand that MS wants to place the games on top, At some point you must say enuf is enuf. That point is way past.

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india cannt even host a tiny cwg properly and they want to bid for the olympics. please stop making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the world.

N who asked you for your opinions?

 

[Justin Joseph]

-We've gotta hang that Kalmadi man- the a$$hole just isn't bothered about the country. To him it's just a big loot exercise. While I understand that MS wants to place the games on top, At some point you must say enuf is enuf. That point is way past.

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N who asked you for your opinions?

That's true.

But look at the positive sides we are getting infrastructure at Delhi + country is getting much needed sports infrastructure.

And as for corruption we can talk it after 15th October and take the action against the guilty.

 

[ChinaChina]

India have successfully host the very first Asiad in 1951 at that time china was not even born properly. So stop trolling.

Who says we can't host CWG?

And we are not bidding for Olympic, from where you get this fake news?? If you don't know the fact plz don't post bcoz it will end up making a fool of yourself and a laughing stock of the PDF.

Delhi Games Organizers Face Delays, Graft Allegations Before October Event

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By Bibhudatta Pradhan - Aug 6, 2010 12:18 PM GMT+0100
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Business ExchangeTwitterDeliciousDiggFacebookLinkedInNewsvinePropellerYahoo! BuzzPrint New Delhi is racing against time to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games after suspending officials over graft allegations and firing a sports management company for failing to win sponsors for the October event.

The Organising Committee suspended two top officials for alleged “financial irregularities,” while a third resigned, the panel’s spokesman Lalit Bhanot said yesterday. The organizers also terminated the contract with an Australian firm hired to raise as much as $122 million in sponsorships, citing “non-performance,” the Hindustan Times reported today.

“The buck stops with me to deliver a good games,” Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the Commonwealth Games 2010 Organising Committee, told Times Now in an interview today. “That’s what I promised the whole country. If anything goes wrong, I am responsible.”

Construction and landscaping at some of the stadiums in the city were incomplete almost a week after the deadline passed to handover the facilities to the organizers. The Times of India carried pictures of a leaky roof in one of the stadiums this week after monsoon rains exposed chinks in the structure, while sister publication Economic Times called the event “Conmen’wealth Games.”

‘Strong Doubts’

The government is spending $7.9 billion on stadiums, swimming pools, cycling tracks, tennis courts and to upgrade the city’s infrastructure to host about 8,000 athletes from 71 member countries that comprise Britain and its former colonies.

The event’s success is key to Asia’s third-biggest economy as it attempts to showcase its status of an emerging power. With 58 days left for the start of the competition, many parts of the capital, including the central Connaught Place, remained dug up with underground cables exposed and debris strewn, hindering pedestrians and motorists alike. The work in progress has raised concerns that the games will turn out to be an embarrassment rather than a cause for celebration.

“I have strong doubts about the success of the games and I am keeping my fingers crossed,” said Ajay K. Mehra, director of the Centre for Public Affairs, a Noida, Uttar Pradesh-based research organization. “By not delivering the task on time and properly, they are certainly allowing the country to become a laughing stock.”

A federal minister pledged to make the sporting event a success.

“Agencies responsible for implementation of projects are regularly and intensely monitoring the progress to ensure completion of the projects on time,” Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy, said in a written reply to parliament today.

Chaos, Disaster

Opposition parties said the allegations of corruption and inefficiency raise a question mark on India’s ability to host an international sporting event as well as South Africa, which hosted the soccer World Cup last month, and China which organized the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

“It is a loot of public money,” said Gurudas Dasgupta of the Communist Party of India in the parliament today. “You are proving to the world that India is incapable of holding the games. It is total chaos and disaster.”

India should focus on the games now and pursue investigations later into corruption allegations after the successful completion of the games, Mike Hooper, chief executive officer of the Games Federation, said in an interview today.

Public Row

Last October, Kalmadi sought the removal of Hooper from New Delhi, alleging he was impeding progress by raising doubts whether the organizers would be able to complete the work in time. Construction was scheduled to end by February, Kalmadi had said in September. The officials later agreed to put the row behind them and to work as “partners” for its success.

“Delay in completion of projects is incredibly frustrating and that is something we have been talking about many times,” Hooper said from New Delhi. “There are leaks, broken tiles - these can be addressed in the next two months.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing a joint press conference with his U.K. counterpart David Cameron in New Delhi on July 29, said he has reviewed the preparations for the games and “is satisfied” with them.

Urban Development Minister Reddy drew comparison to an Indian wedding, which is purportedly chaotic for months until the last day when things fall in place. “But we do end up doing well,” he said on July 26.

To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.net.

 

[Guynextdoor]

That's true.

But look at the positive sides we are getting infrastructure at Delhi + country is getting much needed sports infrastructure.

And as for corruption we can talk it after 15th October and take the action against the guilty.

Ya but at what cost? What should have cost $ 1 Bn comes at $ 10 B? Inflation of 800-1000%. We cannot under any circumstance allow this to be left till Oct!

 

[Guynextdoor]

That's true.

But look at the positive sides we are getting infrastructure at Delhi + country is getting much needed sports infrastructure.

And as for corruption we can talk it after 15th October and take the action against the guilty.

look at the wimp trying to defend himself:

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