C O M M O N W EA LTH G A M E 2 0 1 0 SC A M

WHAT IS COMMON WEALTH GAMES ?

1. Multi-Sport Event

2. Third largest game after Olympic Game and Asian Game

3. Initially known as BRITISH EMPIRE GAME

4. The First Event was held in the Year 1930

OVERVIEW OF COMMON WEALTH GAMES IN INDIA

• India was inducted into the games way back in the year 1934 and it hosted

the common wealth games tournament in the year 2010 for first time

• The Games were hosted at the Capital City New Delhi

• There were participation of 71 countries and around 2000 staff & 18000

volunteers were there in the event

• It was a 12 days sports event & event security arrangements were also tight

during the common wealth games

• 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” was composed by celebrated

Indian musician A.R. Rahman

• The Official Mascot was “Shera”

FACTS AND FIGURES OF COMMON WEALTH GAMES

AMOUNT SPENT ON STADIUM

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

• The budget was revised on account of revised cost indices and

escalation, change in scope of work as per the requirement of venue,

various additions and deletions to make venue suitable for various

standards and addition of service tax, quality assurance and

contingencies

AMOUNT SPENT ON OTHER FACILITIES

Bus Services

•Rs. 18000 crore were spent on DTC bus service

Delhi government spent 60 lakhs on purchase of bus but the original cost was just 40 Lakh

The name is ho-ho services

• During the times of Games, Delhi Government had spent huge amount on

Extension of Delhi metro line

• Amount Spend was around 3000cr

• Delhi government spent around 10 lakh on each pillar but actual cost was 7

lakh per pillar

Metro Services

•In opening Ceremony of CWG there was a special attraction for all Guests and It

was Aerostat or balloon show.

•Its costing around 70 crore

•Actual cost of this Aerostat was 40cr as contracted in U-k based company.

Balloon Cost and Service

EXPENSES IN COMMON WEALTH GAMES

THE PRIME ACCUSED IN THE SCAM WAS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

MR. SURESH KALMADI

COMMON WEALTH GAMES SCAM REPORT

• S u r e s h K a l m a d i w h o w a s t h e c h a i r m a n o f t h e

C W G O r g a n i z i n g c o m m i t t e e w a s a c c u s e d o f

a w a r d i n g a T S R s y s t e m c o n t r a c t t o a S w i s s

f i r m b y t h e C B I

• T h e c h a r g e s h e e t s a i d t h a t “ K a l m a d i w a s t h e

m a i n a c c u s e d a s h e w a s t h e p e r s o n w i t h a l l t h e

s u p r e m e p o w e r s

• I n a d d i t i o n t o K a l m a d i , t h e C B I n a m e d

t w o c o m p a n i e s a l o n g w i t h K a l m a d i a n d p e r s o n s

i n c l u d i n g f o r m e r S e c r e t a r y G e n e r a l L a l i t B h a n o t

CONT..

• O n A p r i l 2 5 , 2 0 11 a f t e r b e i n g q u e s t i o n e d o v e r a l l e g e d

i r r e g u l a r i t i e s i n t h e c o n d u c t o f t h e Q u e e n s b a t o n R e l a y

h e l d i n L o n d o n i n 2 0 1 0 , C B I a r r e s t e d K a l m a d i u n d e r

s e c t i o n s 1 2 0 B a n d 4 2 0 ( c r i m i n a l c o n s p i r a c y a n d

c h e a t i n g ) o f t h e I n d i a n P e n a l c o d e i n t h e C o m m o n w e a l t h

G a m e s Ti m e S c o r i n g E q u i p m e n t S c a m

• H e w a s h o w e v e r r e s t r a i n e d o n 2 5 t h J u l y 2 0 1 2 b y t h e D e l h i

H i g h C o u r t f r o m p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n t h e o p e n i n g c e r e m o n y o f

t h e L o n d o n O l y m p i c s , s a y i n g h i s p a r t i c i p a t i o n c a n c a u s e

‘ e m b a r r a s s m e n t ’ t o t h e n a t i o n

CONT.

• Kalmadi’s conduct at the 2010 has come under scrutiny 2010 Commonwealth

Games

• On January 8th 2012 Suresh Kalmadi was granted Bail by the Delhi High Court

• Suresh Kalmadi was in Jail for 10 months and the court asked him to pay a surety

amount of Rs 5 lakhs

• Kalmadi was accused in the CWG graft case and was allowed by a Delhi court on

13 July 2012 to go to London for 2012 Olympics

CRITICISM OF COMMON WEALTH GAMES

• M i l o o n K o t h a r i a l e a d i n g I n d i a n e x p e r t o n s o c i o e c o n o m i c

d e v e l o p m e n t r e m a r k e d t h a t t h e “ 2 0 1 0 C o m m o n w e a l t h

G a m e s w i l l c r e a t e a n e g a t i v e f i n a n c i a l l e g a c y f o r t h e

c o u n t r y ”

• D r a i n o f P u b l i c F u n d s - A z i m P r e m j i

• M a n i S h a n k a r A i y a r c o m m e n t e d t h a t t h e g a m e s a r e

“ i r r e l e v a n t t o t h e c o m m o n m a n ”

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