WEALTH COMMON GAME SCAM

What is Common Wealth Game ?

o A multi-sport event.

o Third largest game after Olympic Game and Asian Game.

o Initially known as British Empire Game.

oThe first event was held in 1930.

Common Wealth Game is:-

OVERVIEW OF CWG IN INDIA

oIndia hosted the Common Wealth Games tournament in 2010 for the first time.

oGame was hosted in Capital city, New Delhi.

o71 countries participated.

oIt was 12 days sports event.

o12 billion Rupees were spent in Infrastructure Development.

o20 cities were developed for Tourists destination.

o A special village was made for Common Wealth Game named as ‘Game Village’.

oThe official song of ‘Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto’ was composed by Indian Musician A.R. Rahman.

oThe official mascot was ‘Shera’.

AMOUNT SPENT ON STADIUM

FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR VENUESoAmount spend on Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was 961 crore.

oOn Ferozshah kotla Stadium 85 crore.

oOn Indira Gandhi Stadium was 669 crore

oOn Dhyan chand hockey Stadium was 262 crore

AMOUNT SPENT ON OTHER FACILITIES

BUS SERVICES

•Rs.18000 crore were spent on bus service.

•Delhi Government spent 60 lakhs on purchase of bus but the original cost was just 40 lakhs .The name is ho-ho service.

METRO SERVICES

•In extension of Delhi metro line, Government spend around Rs. 3000 crore.

•Government spend Rs.10 lakhs at each pillar but the actual cost was Rs. 7 lakhs per pillar.

BALLOON COST AND SERVICE

•In opening ceremony of CWG there was special attraction for all guests and it was..Aerostat or Balloon show.

•Its cost was around Rs.70 crore but the actual cost was Rs.40 crore as contracted in UK based company.

EXPENSES IN COMMON WEALTH GAME

Mr. Suresh Kalmadi

(The prime person accused in the scam).

PARTIES INVOLVED IN

SCAM

OR

BENEFICIARIES

WERE

Suresh Kalmadi

(Congress PartyRepresentative) and

Chairman of Organizing Committee of Delhi

Commonwealth Game.

SHEILA DIXIT

Chief Minister of Delhi

ROBERT VADRA

Son-in-law of Soniya Gandhi.

JAYPEE GROUP

MTNL

(Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited)

VICTIMS

GENERAL PUBLIC

SCAM IN TICKET

The daily mail sleuths have discovered a fresh moral depravation of the CWG organizing committee.

General public was unable to buy tickets with all the outlets reporting that all the venus have been sold out ,but one witnesses nearly half the venues were empty for every event..

PARTICIPENTS

Thousands of pounds were heisted by frauders organizing the game.

Leaky roofs, collapsing walkways, clogged washrooms, snakes and spiders in athelete quarters.

JOURNALISTS

Lack of food for broadcast journalists.

LABOURERS

COLLAPSE OF‘FOOT OVER BRIDGE’

With just 12 days to go for the games, a new foot-over bridge near the main venue of the Games, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium collapsed, injuring 23 labourers ,5 of them critically, due to poor quality material had been used in its formation..

OUR VIEW

An apt Management Committee should be introduced and should be checked frequently in absence of their knowledge.