Commonwealth Games 2010

It was a day of national celebration for India When Delhi won the bid to host the 2010 edition of Commomwealth Games ,which has previously hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. Every delhiites were immensely proud and happy. Happiness was not for the very reason that Delhi would come on the map of hosting big event nations but the development which C'wealth Games will bring into the city.

November 13,2003 was the day Delhi won for CWG and the cost of hosting the event was estimated at Rs 1899 Crore. This official cost estimates have gone up by whopping 525% at Rs 10000/- Crore. But according to some independent NGOs estimate has gone up by 1575 % at Rs 30000/- Crore. In every project estimated cost is bound to go up but not with such percentage. It is all general public's money.

I came to Delhi in search of a good job in 2006. At that time i did not saw any of the major work going on except the Delhi metro's. The preparation started only in 2007 and paced up in 2009 after Michael Fennell, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, had said that he was “extremely worried” about preparations for the Games. Now we could find the Delhi as a city of dust.Construction works are on in every part of Delhi.

Its all OK. But who is going to check the quality of the work? No work was reported to be of subquality till now. Only Metro got some of the dents owing few accidents which took toll of few lives. It seems that government is trying to save her nose by completing all the construction works by Aug 2010 in haste at any cost compromising the quality of works. Also what about the cleaning of pollution level in terms of dust which takes about six months to settle down.

It would be funny to note that constructions are being done by common man's money living and working in Delhi, facing the heat of inflation with increase in the existing taxes and some of new more taxes, for the very reason that this work will not stay for longer to avail the benefits with substandard quality of work.

why do we need such big events for the development of the city?