Commonwealth Games scams: Latest News & Photos, Detail Case Study
Commonwealth Games Scam
Commonwealth Games is an International multi-sport event was
held in Delhi, India from 3rd of October to 14th of
October in 2010. As India was hosting almost 71 commonwealth teams and 4352 participants,
this event was a pride moment for the peoples of entire nation. This game was
officially inaugurated by Prince Charles and Pratibha Patil. The budget
estimated by Indian Olympic Association in 2003 for hosting the XIX
Commonwealth Games was 16.2 Billion but the day game begun the expenditure was
almost 115 billion.
Commonwealth Games scams: Latest News & Photos, Detail Case Study
The reason for seven times budget increment was corruption. After
the conclusion of Commonwealth Games, a committee was formed to investigate the
corruption and mismanagement done by the Organizing Committee of the games.
Suresh Kalmadi was the President of Indian Olympic Association and Chairman of
Commonwealth Games,2010. The committee
formed to investigate this corruption and mismanagement was led by CAG VK
Shunglu.
After his preliminary investigation he said that contracts
were given to parties who were not even eligible and at very higher prices.
Overall, 53 corruption cases were being inspected by CVC. One Such case was
Timing Scoring Result (TSR) Case. Two firms bided for Timing Scoring result
system one was MSL of Spain with 620 million and other was Swiss firm which
bided 1576 million. Officially the bid was opened on 4th November
2009 but before that on 12th October 2009 Kalmadi announced that
contract was awarded to Swiss Firm despite of Higher rates. Indian government
faced loss of over 900 million in this.
On 20th May,2011 CBI filed the charge sheet
against Suresh Kalmadi in Special CBI Court. He was arrested and was in jail
for 10months. Other than Suresh Kalmadi CBI also named Lalit Bhanot and VK
Verma as accused, However, this was not the only corruption which was done in
this commonwealth games. The other such case was Queens Baton relay case.
Queens baton relay is the relay held around the world before the beginning of
the Commonwealth games and in this relay starts from England and goes around
all the nation participating in the games.
The contract for transporting the queen’s baton around the
world was given to a transporter at much higher rates. CBI named Organizing
committee official TS Darbari, Sanjay Mohindroo, Ashish Patel, and others in
this case. This was some of the irregularities which were in higher values in
terms of money. This was not the end. Even the daily needs things like toilet
paper, soap, mirror were bought at higher rates. For example, toilet paper
which costed 150 rupees was charged almost 1000 rupees, Soap dispenser which
costed 150 rupees was also charged 1000 rupees.
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The scams were also done by Medical team hired for the treatment of coming athletes in the Commonwealth Games. Stretchers, ECG, MRI scan machines were charged 5 times of their price. Corruption was done on each and everything by charging higher rates and awarding contracts to agencies who were not eligible. However, the positive side of this Commonwealth games was that India ranked 2nd at the end of the games with 38 golds medals, 27 silvers medals and 36 bronzes medals with total of 101 medals.
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