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”.

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

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

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.

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 Lalit bhanot.

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

Bus Service

Metro Service

Balloon cost and

service

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 Kalmadi was suspended by the Indian National Congress.

He was however restrained on 25th 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.

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.