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CWG Organising Committee issues ad to 'reveal facts'
Wednesday November 10, 2010 02:50:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Amid charges of corruption, the organising committee of the 2010
Commonwealth Games Wednesday issued full page advertisements in
leading newspapers about its budget and expenditure in conducting
the event, avowedly to "reveal facts" in "public interest".
Calling it a special Commonwealth Games report, the ad said the
responsibility of the organising committee (OC) was to "conduct
the Games" and had "no role" in developing any infrastructure.
Using colour highlighter, photographs and arrows, one of the
several boxes in the ad was about the "myth and truth" of tissue
paper rolls and umbrellas procured for the Games.
The myth, the ad said, was that tissue paper rolls were bought at
the rate of Rs.4,000 each. The truth, however, was that boxes
containing 100 units of rolls were bought at Rs.3,850. Therefore
each roll cost Rs.38.50.
The umbrellas, it similarly said, were not like "any other
umbrella" as imagined. "They were not normal umbrellas. They are
large in size, 100 percent water proof, fire-retardant and come
with a support structure".
According to the OC, its budget was Rs.1,813 crore plus the
overlays. The amount spent till now is Rs.1,400 crore plus the
overlays.
The revenue raised by the OC through sponsorship, TV rights and
ticketing was Rs.674 crore and the value of contract awarded to
government agencies, the Commonwealth Games Federation and Public
Sector Undertakings (PSUs) was Rs.620 crore, the ad said.
The ad detailed the responsibilities of the OC and also had a box
on the international acclaim the Games received.
On Tuesday, the government admitted that the Commonwealth Games OC
failed to achieve an expected revenue of Rs.1,708 crore from the
mega sporting event.
"An amount of Rs.1,708 crore was expected to be generated through
revenue by the organising committee (OC) which has not been
achieved," Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs M.S. Gill told the
Lok Sabha in a written reply.
Amid charges of corruption against him as the chairmen of the OC,
Suresh Kalmadi Tuesday resigned as the Congress Parliamentary
Party (CPP) secretary.
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