Commonwealth games india scam

Commonwealth games 2010 was held in India. The event that was supposed to be the pride of the nation, became the shame for the country. The event and was marked by the scam, bad management and various other controversies.

1. Commonwealth Games I ndia S cam Submitted By: Paresh Parmar (23)

2. Flow of Content :- Introduction Commonwealth game India Commonwealth Committee Suresh Kalmadi The Scam Facts and Figures Funds Allocation Impact Response to Scam Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION Multi-Sport Event Third largest game after Olympic Game and Asian Game Initially known as BRITISH EMPIRE GAME The First Event was held in the Year 1930

4. Commonwealth games India The Games were hosted at the Capital City New Delhi 71 countries participation It was a 12 days sports event Around 12 billion Rupees were spent on Infrastructure development 20 cities were developed for Tourist destination A special village was made for Commonwealth game called as “Game Village” The official song of “ Jiyo Utho Bado jeeto ” The Official Mascot was “ Shera ”

5. Commonwealth games Committee Name Position Held Suresh Kalmadi Chairman Randhir Singh Vice Chairman Lalit Bhanot Secretary General Anil kumar Khanna Treasurer Michael Fennell Member Mike Hooper Member Rakesh Mehta Member N. Ramchandran Member

6. SURESH KALMADI Suresh kalmadi , the Congress party representative to 15 LokSabha from the Pune constituency. He was the Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Delhi Commonwealth games . Kalmadi’s conduct at the 2010 has come under scrutiny 2010 Commonwealth Games

7. THE SCAM The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations . The Commonwealth games scam as it is known involved large scale misappropriation of money during the preparatory phase and conduct of the 2010 Commonwealth games held in New Delhi. The total value of the scam is estimated to be 70,000 crore . Issues that were brought into concern were involved for raising many political and administrative aspects that ruined the part of Commonwealth Games (CWG) Scam 2010.

8. Cont … There are various other issues that were also brought into focus like maintenance of the venues were delayed and programme management had a flop show out of the desk to make a big mess of Commonwealth Games Scam 2010 . The charge sheet said that “ Kalmadi was the main accused as he was the person with all the supreme powers. In addition to Kalmadi , the CBI named two companies along with Kalmadi and persons including former Secretary L alit bhanot .

9. Facts and Figures

10. Funds allocated for the venues The initial planned amount was Rs.1,000 crore but later it was revised to Rs.2,460 crore The amount spend on Jawaharlal Nehru stadium was 961 crore On Ferozshah kotla stadium was 85 crore On Indira Gandhi stadium was 669 crore Dhyan chand hockey stadium was 262 crore

11. Amount spent on other facilities Bus Service Metro Service Balloon cost and service

12. IMPACT Financial cost Socio- environmental Labour law violations Child labour Urban change Sex slavery and prostitution boom

13. Response to scam Kalmadi and Bhanot were sacked from the Organizing Committee by the Sports ministry on Jan 2011. Shunglu panel was constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to go into the irregularities in the conduct of the Games. After his arrest on 25 Apr 2011, Suresh K almadi was suspended by the Indian National Congress . He was however restrained on 25 th July 2012 by the Delhi High Court from partipating in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, saying his participation can cause ‘embarrassment’ to the nation.

14. CONCLUSION Suresh Kalmadi who masterminded the scam has refused to even quit his posts in Olympic Association with tacit support of Congress party. India was humiliated in world stage when World Olympic Association . The scam was unearthed by CAG even before the conduct of the games. Presently the scam is being probed by the CBI.

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