Rs 1300 Crore deficit for Commonwealth Games, taxpayers will Pay

NDTV Sidharth Pandey, Updated: February 22, 2011 23:36 IST
New Delhi: One crooked deal after another has revealed that the team that organised the Commonwealth Games in India was incorporated as the worst sort of Badmaash Company.
Adding to the injury of the thousands of missing crores is the insult that the various deals were crassly crafted. But the corruption that became the currency of the Games is now going to hit India where it hurts.
Some of the men who organised the Games have been arrested, interrogated and released. They have left behind a stack of unpaid bills. Bills that will be paid by you.
NDTV used the Right to Information Act to get the financial big picture. The Games were held in October amid a series of media reports on how the Organising Committee for the event, headed by Suresh Kalmadi, had converted the Games into their financial fiefdom. The net result: a deficit of Rs 1500 crore...
Rs1300 Crore deficit for Commonwealth Games, taxpayers will Pay
Comment: Suresh Kalmadi as a Fighter Pilot has shamed the Indian Air Force.