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2.  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”.

3. 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

4.  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

5.  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.

6.  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.

8.  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

9.  Bus Service
 Metro Service
 Balloon cost and
service

10.  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.

11.  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.