Commonwealth Games expose embedded corruption in the system

WHAT the Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in Delhi have made clear is the fact that India as a nation is immersed deep in corruption and we have not changed much.

If you are a foreign delegate then don’t be surprised by the preparations, thanks to Suresh Kalmadi and his men. You will have few second rung officials welcoming you at the Indira Gandhi International airport rather sports fans, who by now have become detached from the entire event. The special Commonwealth Games taxi you will board will be your first kiss with corruption, wherein the prices quoted for thing were inflated beyond ones imagination.

Don’t forget to wear the seat belts provided in the vehicle as you have a bumpy ride ahead thanks to the roads that have been left unrepaired. While in Delhi, please be vigilant about the stagnant water and mosquitoes as you have every chance of falling sick with dengue or malaria!

It’s difficult to predict the status of stadiums as we are rushing for their completion in the eleventh hour. The patriotic people of India are being asked to put up a phenomenal show in Delhi just as Beijing hosted the Olympics in 2008.

The strong reason behind this system failure might be the appetite for wads of cash amongst the netas. Until the recent time, there was hardly a debate on the CWG 2010 in the upper house or lower houses of the Parliament.

What made them to debate this issue was exposure of corruption in some newspapers, which is a political bullet, without doubt. Secondly the complete charge of conducting these games has been assigned to a bunch of bureaucrats and semi-politicians.

I am certain that Public Private Partnership (PPP) would have been a better idea. We need a well planned systematic approach to co-ordinate the event which we have been lacking badly.

As a last take on this subject I feel we don’t have our hearts in place to host this event.
Better luck next time!

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Himachal government to promote tourism during CWG 2010

IN AN innovative way to attract tourists from across the world, particularly from the United Kingdom, Himachal Pradesh has chronicled all the existing churches and cemeteries of the state in a book. This has been done by the Department of Tourism, and they wish to market and publicise the book at a large scale during the Commonwealth Games and attract tourists.

Arun Kumar, Director, Tourism said: “To attract the international visitors, a book — The Churches and Christian Cemeteries of Himachal Pradesh — is coming up listing various graves and cemeteries of the State where thousands of Europeans have been laid to rest.”

He said the Department of Tourism expects that with this document, it would invoke a desire amongst the visitors to visit the graveyards, churches and cemeteries in Himachal Pradesh as they were influenced by colonial architecture.

He said the book would be made available during the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, besides, in British and other embassies. “This document will also be available in all the tourist information centres within and outside the State,” he added.

The document has the details about the oldest cemetery in Shimla, near Oak Over, where the burial ground was opened around the year 1828 and the first grave is dated 1829. Then there is Cart Road Cemetery where Major Samuel Boileau Goad was also buried.

He was one of Shimla’s most prominent residents and owned at least 33 of Shimla’s most valuable properties including Barne’s Court, Kennedy House, the Park and Holly Lodge, besides, the details of cemeteries at Sanjauli, below St Bedes, Kanlog, Jutogh, Kotgarh and Subathu.

He said the book also had details of churches and cemeteries, memorials at Nahan, Kasauli, Kangra, Palampur, McLeodganj, Dalhousie and Chamba. Then there is a memorial to Penelope Chetwode at Khanag, near Ani in Outer Seraj of Kullu district. Penelope was the daughter of Field Marshal Baron Chedwode, who had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.

“She remained in love with Himachali hills till her death in 1986 on a trek between Shimla and Kullu over the Jalori Pass,” informed Kumar.

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India will send 12  Men’s archers to the 2010 commonwealth games.

Athlete	Event
Jayanta Tlukdar	Recurve individual
Rahul Bannerjee	Recurve individual
Tarundeep Rai	Recurve individual
P Srither	Compound individual
C H Jignesh	Compound individual
Ritul Chatterjee	Compound individual
Jayanta Talukdar	Team recurve
Rahul Bannerjee	Team recurve
Tarundeep Rai	Team recurve
P Srither	Team compound
C H Jignesh	Team compound
Ritul Chatterjee	Team compound

India will send 12  Women’s archers to the 2010 commonwealth games.

Athlete	Event
Dola Bannerjee	Recurve individual
Deepika Kumari	Recurve individual
L.Bombyla Devi	Recurve individual
Gagandeep Kaur	Compound individual
Jhanu Hansda	Compound individual
Bhegibati Chanu	Compound individual
Dola Bannerjee	Team recurve
Deepika Kumari	Team recurve
L Bombyla Devi	Team recurve
Gagandeep Kaur	Team comp
Jhanu Hansda	Team comp
Bhegiyabati Chanu	Team comp

 

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Delaying of NoC harms preparations for Commonwealth Games

THERE IS growing concern in Boxing circles in Pakistan as it is being seen that the Interior Ministry is delaying the issuance of No-Objection Certificate (NoC) to the Sports Ministry regarding the visit of pugilists from abroad in the run up to the Commonwealth Games. The foreign teams are being invited to help the country's boxers prepare in a better way for the ensuing Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

To ensure that the boxers are in top shape, the Pakistan Boxing Federation is organising an international training camp at Pakistan Sports Complex. The camp began on August 15 but due to lack of clearance only boxers from Sri Lanka have reached Pakistan till now.

Sports ministrty spokesman, Faik Ali said that although that have written to the Ministry of Interior but they have received no response yet.

“We have Invited 8 teams for the ongoing joint training camp but only one team from siri-lanka has arrived in Pakistan for the preparation of Commonwealth games while rest of the teams will come after the issuance of NOC from Ministry of Interior”, he said.

Pakistan Boxing Federation has invited teams from Uganda, Central African Republic, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria and Rwanda in the ongoing training camp.

Ali also mentioned that once no-objection certificate is received from Ministry of Interior, it will become the responsibility of the government to provide security to the visiting teams and the sports ministry will alseo be able to arrange for the logistics.

“We are waiting for their reply, so that we may start legal documentation for the foreign teams", the spokesman said
Meanwhile, sources in Pakistan Boxing Federation said that delay in NoC was due to negligence of certain officials and this was going to hit preparations for the Commonwealth Games.

“The main goal of conducting the joint boxing camp is to provide effectively competitive training in line with international standards to the promising pugilists of the country. This camp will continue till 24 September”, sources added.

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Better banish Delhiites to some other place during CWG Games

DELHI AND its citizens are paying a heavy cost for hosting the forthcoming Commonwealth Games which have come as boon only for netas and babus to earn more Black money from corruption and to get free passes for the game, while the common man is put to all types of difficulties.

Unplanned construction-work, overlooking areas where development was needed more has caused water-logging and traffic jams and also lead to the failure of the sanitary system thus causing spread of dengue-like diseases.
Closing of roads for trial-run for the games and the decision to close the games-lanes calls for imposition of curfew in Delhi during Commonwealth Games rather than putting citizens to further hardships through probable traffic-jams.

It seems only God can save people from hardships during Commonwealth Games although time constraint and rains have forced the organisers to drop some of their grand plans. It would have been lot better if the games were organised in a city, which is less congested and has more space to offer as compared to the national capital.

If the games were held in some other place, then top quality infrastructure would have been created for players as well as common citizens.

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