Seven years after winning the bid for hosting one of the most prestigious events, Delhi is still lagging behind in terms of preparation. With just a few more weeks to go for the grand kick off, the construction for most of the facilities are not yet complete.
Most stadiums are under heaps of dust, building materials all over the place and workers still scurrying around. The monsoon in Delhi at the moment is not helping either. The Common wealth games is a fantastic opportunity to project Delhi’s (in effect India’s) image to the world. Ideally, it should be a show of strength and supremacy that the country is so proud of.
“Everything will fall into place at the right time just like Indian weddings” the officials say. A typical irresponsible statement from the people who are in charge of things that are not supposed to happen. At this stage, one can only pray that the country is not humiliated for hosting such a prestigious event, which could potentially make Delhi visible all over the world.
Not just the delay in preparation, the most worrying aspect is the budget. All the venues overshot with a huge margin. Mostly due to poor planning, inflated bills and expenses that never really occurred. It is alleged that a toilet roll was procured at four thousand rupees. Four thousand?? Yeah, imagine how important they are!!
Especially after Beijing has shown its power in 2008 Olympics, it would be a shame if India fails badly in hosting the upcoming event. At the moment, people involved in organising the events are accused of corruption.
But, who cares? The money is only “Common Wealth”, right? Hmmm….
5 comments:
Hi Gops - Very neatly expressed and written.
In my opinion ,people especially from the developed countries like GB try to turn great focus to a less-wealthy country on the negative side if something goes wrong.
The information is blown up to a large extent that it really hurts us to see all this stuff on papers.
This however, is never an excuse to the mess happening in Delhi.
Our guys need to know the importance of this event in the context of progressing the country's economy,visibility,lifestyle and culture.
But generally when any mishap happens in developed countries, they are never blown up to a proportion as this is or they are forgotten soon.
I hope one way or the other Games will go ahead and finished without much problems.... damage already made can't be erased unless they prove by showing some improvement from now onwards....
....its a total shamble by the Organising Committee...(GOVT) every Indian know the ability of making such event is nothing with the resource (brain) we have in there.....but they them self to be blamed for getting these international media jimics.....unnecessarily.....
...but who knows the real truth......because of the Indian SuperPower these countries may try create scenes...to damage the name as well....
Nice one!!! As u said, we can offer prayers, nothing else!! Its so disgusting, the height of corruption. There should be some limit for everything, after all, its our nation's pride, honour and projection..... Also praying that the news spreading should be only partially true..
An opportunity to made us proud has let us down. Disappointed.
This is a good example for those who relax all the time and when the deadline nears, they roll up their sleeves.. in this context, after all the damage is done.
I only hope this anger and pain does not fade off with time.. like other issues we had faced.
Neat ... Thanks for the short description of the Indian undertaking of CWG ... Maybe they misunderstood CWG as a game where the wealth of the common people can be played with ... :(
And we already knew the result. WE LOST! The big question is who will revive our lost pride?
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