Further to your blog,I think the nations outside India were awed after the spectacular show but, however I think that money could have been distrbuted to the poor instead of putting on a glamorous shows like that, becuase even after the oppening show there was still criticism i.e. with the running track, distraction from spectators when other nations were playing like England, the isue with the swimming pool etc.

From a retired Army Colonel after all said and dfone will soomeone compare wmg and cmg in terms of money and no of cpountries participating . I think army did a much better job

The peoples found guilty should be behind the bars on cwg scams. The cost of cwg was 20 times more ie 70000 cr then 3500 cr. Is for this we pay tax to country. It dept should see who r the peoples who became millionare after cwg. we must never forget CORRUPTION starts at Top. Its shame to say by me that Mr. Kalmadi is from Maharastra. WE NEED JUSTICE. Let is show that no one is bigger than LAW.

well i want to make following points regarding this article and the comments: 1. the figure given by author is unverified. saying our govt spent 350cr is one thing but what is the credibility of information. no audit can be performed of such megaevent in such short span of time. so the possible inference is that the author cooked the information just for the sake of criticizing govt. The public reaction is shortsighted and we immediately start bashing our government. This is similar to the aussie reporter who cooked up the story in which he takes a bomb in the games village.Such kind of media should be highly discouraged. 2. Many people above commented that the government should give an account of spending of taxpayers money. They should be aware that government presents an account of all reciepts and expenditure done annually in the parliament called budget. It accounts for every single penny spent by our govt.A copy of budget can be availed through GOI website 3.Suggesting that people should stop paying tax is not a good suggestion. Tax receipts are essential for running our economy and there is much more spending than just a single event. 4.Suggesting that the current government does not represent public goodwill is not correct totally. Afterall it is a democratically elected government by the people.If people have any issues with the government they have the electoral power to vote. Why criticize the government which has been chosen by the you....???? NOTE: i am not suggesting that there is not any corruption in the organizing committee. what i am saying is that we should not mindlessly bash the authorities without looking into depth. It is our country and our government. Corruption always starts from the grassroots which is us. It is a complete democratic setup which gives power to the citizens. All they need is to be aware. Criticism would be welcome. mera bharat mahaan

Can the media use RTI to unearth more details and present it infront of the people?

This crap about the CWG opening ceremony reflecting Indian culture is just that :there was not one bloody elephant or sacred cow featured and not even a skit from the Kama Sutra. The Tokyo Seoul Sydney and Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremonies were far superior.

Can we use our Right to Information to get information on the CWG (Games) scam budget????

hey i have a total quality management project to make..i am doing it on CWG..and i need to have the list of all the expenses..the detailed alloted budget for the entire event and so on..where could i end up getting it

look, can I say something frdnz..??I am sure about that everyone in the world(not only Indians), will do the same when he/she will get the opportunity to earn some(or huge) amount of money without revealing anything.And we are discussing this thing, because it's a huge amount. But, let me divert this thing to a different aspect. When a corporation/municipality gives a tender(eg : road construction) to a contactor; is he not going to gobble a large amount from that govt money?Isn't that the tax-payer's money(our money) also.??So, why dont we file a case against them..??Those constructions are also not very good and those roads are also damaged after facing a single rainy season torture..??So, lets shout against them also..??We are talking about corruption in CWG.Let me remind you, we all know about corruptions we are facing day by day from very ground level.When a policeman stops your bike for breaking traffic rule;does he makes a receipt for the fine.??Or just he takes some money from you and then leaves you.Kalmadi and his committee is also the common people.They are also the face of other Indians also.More specifically they are somehow like us.So, how is it possible for them to be different when all the rest of India is running by the same mentality.I saw in the Indian Railways, that the Ticket Chekers there taking lots of illegal money from the people who are taking some luggage in railways without giving any receipt.So, are they not the criminals.We all face these issues everyday.So, lets make a investigation file on each of these issues.Try to punish them for what they done.We want to eradicate corruption ;let's start it from the ground level.Then,in the next big event we will automatically get good Kalmadi & co. Which is going to spend all the money in the right way.We dont need to file a investigation against them.Then, these things will change.Otherwise, these things will happen in the same way in near future also.

You Indians deserve it. In India only salaried are taxed. NOBODY else pay taxes. You guys are screwed until you fix this.

There is a company called Wizcraft and they are arbitarily being given all the contracts by the government. One wonders why there is no open tender. Also- all the film festivals run by the govt are being given to them. There should be an investigation into this company. But who will order the investigation?

Thank you sir! This was badly needed .. somebody to bring this out. Someone had to blow the whistle and really proud that you did it. This is ridiculous. There should be an inquiry and every penny that has gone towards corruption and over charges needs to be recovered and used in proper manner. Two days back my father got an Income Tax audit and the officer identified that he had taken a deduction of Rs.4000 by mistake. They asked him to pay it. And here there is no account of Rs. 350 crores.. only 60 crores for the aerostat and 290 crores for creating those puppets,drums and colored clothing ???

Only solution is organize a group like Naxals, and get all the branded crook politicians and punish them with an open public court. Easy to say I know but it can not be done because MM Singhji has to deliver Rahul Gandhi as our next PM. MonMahan, Pranab and other senior Ministers are all on the Bofors pay roll in including Advani group so sing sare jahan se achha and watch the game on big LCD TV.

All the comments are made supporting my views that my country has been taken over by a group of united political Mafia of all parties. After the game a commission would set up for an eye wash. No CBI inquary will be ordered, even if ordered MM Singh Govt. would cover up or hush up the investigation. People of India are taken for a ride since Independence. MonMahan to Advani all are white color educated crooks. India needs revolution like JP once on the road. We have to rebuild the country from the basic again changing the constitution that no accused can ever contest the election.

Nothing will ever happen. You scratch my back and I will do it for you is the policy being adopted by all political bigwigs. National interest is not in anyone's agenda. And we the poor public mutely continue to watch and undergo pain and agony. Do we have alternative?

unfortunately in the present times, even the opposition is in cahoots with the government and get a share of the spoils... so there is no check on the extravaganzy unless the Judiciary decides to step in.

Finally someone rooting for taxpayers money. In India it seems that public money is up for grabs, with media and govt showing disinclination to punish any offender. Most of media's sting operations are politically motivated. Otherwise we would have got to know a lot more about the obscene amount of wealth pilfered in the name of the Games.

Very good article Rajesh!! You have amassed the information very well and brought it to the notice of everybody. Just a thought though. This is a good first step but no action would be taken against this. Can you do us all a favor by compiling all the comments and getting signatures and filing a public interest litigation against the Govt that allowed such a brazenly deceitful act against our sovereign nation? Articles like this are very helpful in propogating the corruption but do nothing to curb our great politicians from keeping at it. Do let me know your thoughts and maybe we can create a forum and create some noise atleast.

Now TIME has to come to change ourselves. Believe it or not “CWG is nothing but our own IMAGE.”

what Mr Karla have in mind can he do this Kind of Show in Peanuts. then let Him be an event organizers then he should spare us from his sarcastic comments occupying this space.

It was a celebration of India. Do you know how much the event did to uplift the morale of Indians in general and athletes in particular? The intangible gains are huge here. I know it sounds cliched but I am ready to give up a meal or two if an event like this is going to take more than what it ideally should. Let's not look at it only from the money perspective

There should be a detailed audit on the complete expenditure. People who have genuinely invested on right places should come clear in their facts and figures.

Actually the cost was around Rs70-80 Crores . rest is with Mr Kalmadi . obviously - He will come out clean on these allegations after the games . We have a very short memory - We as a nation do not remember things .

Dear countrymen, Why do we bother so much? see the gains from the CWG10. We have created billionaires. The OC has brought the money in circulation. National and international records have been created in sports like Cost-over-run and time-over run. case studies have emerged in how to buy something at unimaginably high prices. How to create benefits for people even remotely related to the organising committee is another innovation. How to repair a stadium for 900 cr when the new one costs 40 crore is a economic invention. And at the opening ceremony Mr Kalmadi has already praised and thanked everyone (was it a vote of thanks on successful closure?), he has been so busy cooking up books and finding more and more ways of stealing public money that he cant differentiate between cheers and jeers. But the man must be held in high regard for his consistency- he never let the levels of theft dip? It will be a good idea to make him our next president- how much can you steal in the Rashtrapati bhavan compared to the 70,000 cr loot, plus he has done in 3 months what the British could not do in 400 years- England, Northern Ireland, scotland and wales should hand over all their medals to him- he has done it better than their forefathers - in the art of plundering India. He represents the concepts of the queen of common wealth like no other. He has just validated what we have known all along ( and Rajiv Gandhi said so) its 10% that trickles down- so all of you there why do you keep saying its been expensive- divide the figure by 10. The OC also deserves a Nobel price in economics- provng something the 1 billion nation knew but did not have empirical proof for. He should have been our flag bearer. And dont even think of making too much noise- else Mr Kalmadi will need to award contracts to his inlaws to make the aerostat 'thought blocker enabled' for guest athletes & it will cost a further 100 cr. So just keep mum & enjoy the common wealth go. Jai Hind and hail King Kalmadi.

the event showcased india's superiority and development along with india's cultural diversity. I would say, it was worth every rupee spent!

A crowdfund for public interest litigation. I feel that public memory in India is extremely short term and corrupt politicians can get away with CWG-like heists because of it. Most people don't pursue cases of blatant corruption against the government because of the sheer effort involved. However, many of us, myself included, would be more than willing to contribute non-trivial sums of money - I can sign on for donating Rs 5,000 tomorrow - to a common PIL fund that funded hard / tough legal action against those involved. This coupled with relentless media mentions would improve things a bit. Any thoughts ?

Really INDIA get Dry, if anyone sensibly think what is the limit of budget & how Govt. of India procuring & in which way they spending the money. Really its time to realize and revolution against these corrupted hand behind name of Govt., where they even not with think of its every citizen's money.They are just Parasites & Termites. And I wanted ask to Govt. who involved in CWG organizing committee, who are they, from where they came& Whats their identity? i think behind Govt. they are just nothing, its a AVERAGE thinker MAN or Just are as ILLITERATE hungers eating every citizen's money, if they so really talented & honest man beneath regulating Govt. then every things would have been Proud full but not yet proud happened still India not Developed country....its shameful for India with immense talent's enriched people are not running India despite we live under dump regulator Government's man. Damn Parasites. Incredible India.

Spending Rs.350 crores of the INDIAN tax payers money for the CWG opening ceremony CERTAINLY NEEDS TO BE HONESTLY AND EXPERTLY PROBED. Any event management company WORTH ITS SALT,other than the one hired by the CWG OC if any, would be laughing at YET another crude attempt by KALMADI and CO.to launder AWAY the Indian Tax Payers money unashamedly.DISGRACEFUL and DECEITFUL conduct to say the least. Shyamal Pal

Do Kalmadi, Dikshit, Gill, Reddy, the PM and Sonia Gandhi know how much was 'sanctioned' and grudgingly sent to Leh after the flood-disaster, as compared to the 350-crores (loot included) CWG opening show? So much for Indian lives in Leh.

Nicely penned down. Whether it is corruption or the great opening show of CEG, it has covered each aspect of the games very neatly. I agree with writer, we should take severe steps against the people who have inflated the budget of games for their bank balance and should not get them away under the eulogies India is receiving for such a great show. We are never against organizing or performing on an international stage until we are working in budget.

After coming to India it has not remained ‘COMMON Wealth Games’, it has rather become, ‘CONGRESS Wealth Games’!! I wonder when will these politicians stop playing ‘games’ with the ‘Common Wealth’ of the nation?! - Siddhartha Passi

this money should be used for some good purposes lile removing poverty, building good roads etc instead of CWG.

A paltry 350 crores for the opening fiasco out of a whopping 70000-100000 lacs on the CWG 2010 (tentative estimates)! Have we not portrayed to the entire world that we are well off ? can we not now proudly proclaim that there is not an iota of poverty in India ? Who in India cares for Taxpayers' money & who is bothered about the Crores of Rupees that have been bungled in the current CWG. There must also be a tentative estimate for the CWG closing extravaganza. You better get busy with that figure. All those involved in the CWG don't care a tuppence for the problems afflicting' MERA BHARAT MAHAN'.

NO BODY WILL DEMAND THE EXPANCES ACCOUNT AND AUDIT EXCEPT MAY BE MEDIA HOUSE. ALL POLITITIANS ARE PAID HANDSOME AMOUNT THERE FORE ALL WILL KEEP MUM. PUBLIC HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO PAY TAX . WHY DONT TOI INITIATE THIS MOVE IN MASS SCALE.

Kalmadi and the like should be awarded "Cold Metal" (i.e., behind iron bars) in Tihar Jail

Many of us didn't knew that 350 crore was spent on that 2.5hrs of opening ceremony. It really a shame for us that one side we are starving with hunger, devastating flood which has ruined the life of general public and on the other side we are spending that much amount on inaugral ceremony. The government should definitely give the list of expenses what was planned and actually what happened. But this is really like a dream to expect the explanation from goverment. At the end only "common man" of india will suffer.

CWG Delhi website leaves a lot to be desired. I wonder how much money was spent on this ?

People, especially those living abroad are now wondering what the fuss was all about- even criticising Indian media for doubting our capabilities. My fear is that the culprits will not be taken to task riding as they are on the current wave of public euphoria. Even corporate heads have remarked on the wrong priorities of the govt and the colossal wastage of money in the name of CWG. If the govt wants to make Sports a national priority, it needs to build state of the art sports facilities for our athletes in small towns first. It is perhaps wishful thinking by foreign observers that India will learn from this experience . Regrettably the OC officials seem to be giving themselves a pat on the back .

Agreed, we need transparency in the amount spent. We should have more events but cost needs to be justified and the organisers need to be answerable. The shine we saw in the opening should not cover up the muck of the days leading up to the CWG

I agree 100% with you Rajesh. Personally I think the Commonwealth games to be little more than "Loot the common man games", as most of the money that was LOOTED from the public (by raising prices of just about everything in Delhi multiple times, from petrol to vegetables, food items and even essentials like milk) has ended up in the pockets of those involved in organizing this awful mess of a Games. And even then, they couldn't get it right as we all know by now. Ok, things went to plan during the cermony, but as you say, thats hardly an excuse for everything else thats been going on. Most in Delhi don't want ANYTHING to do with this mess, but on it goes regardless <sigh>. And the sad part is, I'm pretty sure those responsible for the looting (read those in power) will never be punished for what they did. In fact, as most say on here, the public will forget what they did, and carry on as usual - pretty much because this type of thing is normal in India. And if by some slim chance someone does try and take action against them, chances are they'll be paid off not to do so or their cases would languish for years in the court system. Either way, they get off scot-free. About par for around here though, the common man's opinion has little or no value (except when it's time to buy their votes). . .

Olympics ! Oh, No. Enough of this squandering. Do not bulge many more bank accounts with swindled money by staking claims to more mega events. National pride comes from improving the living standards of millions who carry stones to build stadiums rather than singing few colorful songs.When half India is still living in misery spending like water and swindling in the name of spending is unpardonable. Pl do not burden us any more. Build schools and hospitals with proposed expenditure.

everyone I would like my two cents worth, Suresh Kalmadi was proudly saying the cost of a roll of toilet paper is Rs 40 ie almost Aus$ 1. I live in Sydney and get toilet paper in our supermarket for 30 cents for a roll. So for the Super Markets who buy in bulk it must be much cheaper. In other words since CWG organisers were buying toilet paper for a dollar they were paying three times the amount any bloke would pay in Australia. So the accounts have to be audited but I am sure the paper work will be perfect. In other words money has been wasted.

As always, Kalra you write what one has come to expect from you. The truth! Well done and Gof bless!

Now You SEE when games are moving on relatively smoothly, every body is trying take the credit of hosting it. Just because one Opening Ceremony unarguably went spectacular, everyone is just moving around it only. BJP saying congress cant take the credit alone. Huh Games are not over yet. big job ahead. Run Up to the games has already been tarnished. You guys read any newspaper of the world, every headline bear "glitch, trouble etc" words ven when praising for opening ceremony. APPEAL Hope the games go well. and after that everyone needs to raise the voice against people because of whom we nationalists Indians have had to face embarrassment. CMON WE CANT LET IT HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY AND OUR SPORTS

Rajesh i thank the media for bringing all the filth about the CWG in the open however it now seems that game bashing has become a media sport. Post such blogs accusing someone only if there are credible proofs else you will only aid the wrong doers in their defense

Beijing Olympics in numbers: 205 countries taking part in the Games £20 billion (British pounds) cost of Olympic venues and infrastructure £60 million cost of Olympic opening ceremony Delhi CWG by numbers: 71 countries taking part in the Games 70,000 crore Rupees = £10 billion cost of venues and infrastructure 350 crore Rupees = £50 million cost of opening ceremony

Please enjoy the moment. Criticism is easy, what is the solution. Delhi is being showcased internationally and article like these can not dampen the pride I feel for the city and as a citizen of this Country.

When hundreds of people in India are not getting two sqaure meals a day , we who live in glass house chher of the greatness of India , the India does not live in the houses but in slums , let one Indian leader show how he has helped them to rise hardly anyone , we pat each others back seat in the airconditioned comforts of hotels and restaurent and discuss world economy and how we are going to be super power, but we never go to a govt hospital or to avillage and see how 90 % of the mass does not have the basic neccessity of education , health , hygiene but our netas talk of roti , kapda or makan probably for themselves and go around in chaufered cars with z security paid by the public at large , we are leaving in a dream world we would be only superpowers in our dream or in our discussions with the likes of us, we willnever be able to see the ground reality. I am ashamed to be PIo with this type of my fellow cioutrymen

We, as Indians, do not have the stomach for success or thinking big. The author of this article is one of them who cannot digest a success and has started vomiting.

In all this debate and discussion, has anyone thought of the basic problem: the preoccupation of Indians with song and dance , how easily they get diverted by mere tamasha, and how their sole aim in life seems to be incessant entertainment at the cost of serious work? THAT is where the root of the disease lies. The politicians merely capitalise on this penchant.

350 crores is not so big by international standards.

NOTHING,REPEAT,NOTHING IS GOING TO COME OUT ON THE EXPENSES STATED> EVEN THIS SHORT COMMENT MAY NOT APPEAR. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS-UNDER PAID,WITHOUT ANY STATE SUPPORT WILL BRING GLORY TO INDIAN SPORTS.IN THIS EUPHORIA EVERYTHING WILL BE BURIED AND THE PERPETRATORS WILL GO OUT TO LOOK FOR MORE PASTURES- WE ARE INDIA.

This is an excellent article and sincere journalism. We must relentlessly go after all the scamesters and not heave a sigh of relief till we have them all punished. Merely by spending Rs.350 crores on Opening Ceremony of CWG, we cannot wash away the sins of the Prime Minister who did not appoint a coordinator for the Games and did nothing to punish the guilty, Jaipal Reddy, Kalmadi (who says shamelessly that he would not resign even after the Games) and Sheila Dixit etc. There is the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Government must go into it and punish the guilty. After the Games are over, people should agitate and force this Govt. to act against corruption. The Prime Minister is no doubt an honest man but he is presiding over a Cabinet of Corrupt and inefficient people like MS Gill, Jaipal Reddy, etc. Sonia Gandhi too is not acting. She must remove Kalmadi and Sheila Dixit as soon as the Games are over. They would submit their resignations in no time the moment Sonia Gandhi asks them to do so. There is also need to punish Mani Shankar Aiyer, the ex Sports Minister who for two years did nothing. Nobody should be allowed to go scot free. In fact, there is need to replace the Prime Minister also who does not even understand that for such big events, coordinator needs to be appointed.

front row seat at cwg opening : Rs. 25000 declared cost of cwg opening : 50 crore cost of aerostat : 60 crore total actual cost of cwg opening : 350 crores total cost of cwg : 70k crores getting away easily after the loot : PRICELESS!!!

in hindsight the former sports minister MS Aiyar was right

Does a Indian politician ever got naied on corruption charges, The Indian politician is corruption proof that is why so many political dynasties are emerging all over the country, forget about not paying tax etc, we will be the ones to be hounded wheras the looters will be laughing all the way to the bank

The article is bang on target.

We Indians suffer from Short-term-memory-loss. Once this whole fan-fare and hoopla is over it will be show cased at grand success and the people will bask in its glory and international applaud. But the cost we paid to acheive this is so shamelessly high that it takes away that zing from all this. U give this amount of money to even a country in carribean island and even they would be able to come up with such great spectacle. The point is after all this is over will the people who are responsible for such waste of money be questioned by law? will they be punished for their shamefull act? Will we, as a citizen, be given the account of all the expenses? Is it possible that we as citizen of this country tell the government that we won't pay any taxes untill we are given the total account of the CWG expenses? And to end this I don't want Olympics to be hosted in India for another 2-3 deacads because then even our childer would be in debt from the expenses.

Rajesh, Not only for CWG, for all Government spending they should allow people to have access to financial reports. This way we'll all know where is our tax money going.

Basic problem here is the commitment as an Indian citizen. We must be more selfless, when it comes to building and conducting national events.

Reminder News for all of you - "Prime minister has cleared the name of tainted telecom Secretary of PJ Thomas for the post of central vigilance commissioner.Central vigilance commissioner is the chief who looks over the corruption charges in the country.But with the inception of the telecom secretary who himself was involved in the biggest scam of the decade in favoring certain companies in 3 G spectrum distribution the nation is questioning the intention of the UPA government and it's seriousness in removing corrption from the country". When Opposition leader could not do anything by meeting President in this matter...who you are buddy ? On the contrary, same Media and congress peaker says what was the need of doing "tamasha" in front of President. You had a chance to throw out congress before 1 year .. didn't do...what will you do now ? Ohh forgot Telecom Scam ....

just to correct you, in the first para, the biggest critics are people in india only and not abroad. secondly, i agree that 350 crore spent on opening ceremony was a huge amount but it was fantastic and elicited much praise atleast. But what about spending thousands of crores on the preparation of games, venues etc and still get the flak. india can afford to spend a little extra as it did for the games but cant afford to lose image of powerful emerging economy of 21 century. thanks to brazen Kalmadi, his overweening has brought india a lot of criticism. He talks a lot. SUGGESTION: As soon as the games are over, first act should be to remove him from officer and allowed to interfer in sports. and Begin an overhaul of Indian Olympic Association. It shoul be brought. We have seen what Kalmadi and his ilk has done , in order to avoid such embarrasement again, please look after, 1.Randhir Singh-Secretary- General IOA 2.Vidya Stokes-Hockey chief 3.Digvijay singh-Shooter's chief 4.Praful Patel-football chief etc

Very Apt Rajesh...wonder what the Indian citizens have to see more..

we need Media's noise to echo people's voice AFTER CWG. Let there be a RTI and yes we need the account of EVERY PAISA spent even if the event is paisa vasool. And a fast track court. Kasab & Co are no different in fact are worse than Kasab since they are Indians. When Indians everyday due to hunger and disease and when funds are diverted to PERSONAL accounts in the name of national pride, its just another form of homicide. PLEASE POST THIS ARTICLE AFTER CWG, AGAIN.

ru sure that is 3.5 billion dollars i dont think so pls verify the figure

why critics have to criticize for the sake of criticizing?. why cant they rejoice with others, are they sadistic in nature... i have pondered over these question many times hope u give me my answer

Desh Hamara Hindusthan, Jai Jai Bharat Hindusthan.

The Old saying - If you ask the price then you can't afford it applies here. Think of NOT what it costed INDIA but of what part u played in helping? You are being a party pooper.

I am reminded of Premchand's story titled Parda (Curtain). It is a story of a limited income household who can afford just one set of clothes which has to be shared by all the women in the family. Hence, in order to hide their poverty, the family always has a curtain in good condition on the front door of their house.

Commonwealth was brought to India with a scam and to do the biggest scam ever in the history. Ask Kalmadi how he got the games to India? and why is known to all... India is not ready to accept this extravagenza 8-10 times of extra cost than required. Why the hell a single bit of credit should be given to organising committee and what the hell they have done. NO CREDITS rather and international level probe should follow the CWG to audit why 8 times money was spent and all responsible for this chaos must not be spared.

Indians are always fooled by politicians in the name of National Pride. They forward us mails showing the positives of CWG and govt. says "It will earn Rs. 5bn in the coming years". You can't spend 70,000 crores for the event to earn revenue, which could have been done in just few thousand crores. The Congress govt. is surely going to hide the corruption as it has been doing from the last 60 yrs now. Our media will get some other idiotic topic as always and they will play around other interesting topics. Rajesh, I hope you will continue with your articles even after the games are over and not only you the TOI team would help the nation make sure all those behind the scandal are behind the bars Thanks for your article and making people aware of the costs because Indians really no doubt can easily be fooled by our politicians Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

In future India want to conduct this type of Big circus i mean events, they should completely remove the responsibility from the hands of Gov. people, politicians and beaurocrats and they should give it to Private companies, so they should responsible for organizing whole event and whole money should get from sponsoring from other private companies, so gov. of India no need to spend single penny from tax payers money. So this idea evolves from the so called Coca-Cola games conducted by America, i think Atlanta Olympics, completely funded by private companies. This is the only future saving grace for India for avoiding, getting rid of these Kalmaddi's and ugly mouth Bhanot's and other ugly corrupt politicians and corrupt beaurocrats who almost increased this Big circus budget to almost 10 times compared to initial budget. I can expect almost 30 to 40% of CWG budget goes to corruption, the rest what we're watching. Despite of corruption they shamed nation by showing ugly toilets and dogs wandered beds to outside world, Only saving grace is Wizcraft's extravanza, so always corporate companies deliver for such cost, but always gov. people fail with their lazy and corruption practices.

Guys see it through this angle: If 70K crores of investement can't filter through the corruption, the burecracy & the politics then nothin can...We have seen till date that Crores were spent on developi......ng India but nothing reached the common man...you know why??? Because the people who should have genuienly spent all this money for the development were indeed developing themselves... 70 thousand crores is a lot of money to mess around with...no doubt quite a lot must have gone into a lot of people Swiss accounts, party funds etc. but see it has still managed to filter thorugh the nonsense for the infrastructure development.... YOU CAN'T stop corruption in India...the only way forward is "the pie to be of such a mammoth sizeeeeeeeeee" that it reaches out to the Common or the Poor man in india... So please be patient...what we should be asking the Politicians or the Indian government is this: Now that you have invested 70,000 crores of money on the Infrastructer development under CWG2010, please shows us the ROI Plans (Return on Investement)...

Dear Rajesh, you do have a point and it is probably wrong to spend on this scale when some basic needs of our people have not yet been fulfilled. But then, there are always people who feel that the two efforts must go side by side:Eradication of poverty and a certain image building for international consumption.In addition, there is the point of giving a spurt to our effort in sports.But, irrespective of which view one takes, there is no doubt that every rupee spent for such an event must be wisely & well spent, & there must not be any lining of pockets.And it is precisely this which hurts, because there is no doubt that, in creating this event,some people have become rich at the cost of quality & probity.

Kalmadi got away with the loot in 2008 at the CYG in Pune . Delhi citizens , please dont let him get away this time, otherwise he will bring Olympics to your city and screw up even more.

Our sports people do all the hard work for peanuts and our politicians, administrators and their contractors rake in the moolah in their name while we fools pay through our noses for it. Already the cost of living has shot through the ceiling. With rip offs like these, there won't be any respite for common man.

Hello Rajesh, Nice article showing the actual invisible faces of corruption not under the table but openly over the table. Overall appreciation of a very good show is of the "Security Forces" who had controlled the whole show without any terrorist incident, although the whole Delhi was closed. LRB

Dear Netas/ Bureacrates: Please Go on looting......... till the exchequer shows blank.