Commonwealth games 2010 wheels look well and truly off

In 2003 when Delhi won the bid to host the Common Wealth Games in 2010 the whole of India was ecstatic. We thought this is the opportunity to show the might of India and to prove India doesn’t resemble the synonyms of poverty and corruption.

Seven years on, less than two week for the CWG to begin we find the image of India tarnished because of poor organizing of the games. We find all sorts of adjectives used by the media around the world to describe the mess that is CWG 2010 Delhi.
In the past we have seen every major event like Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Common Wealth games will always face some criticism or the other from the local Media of the host country. We have seen it in 2010 FIFA World Cup which was held in South Africa and also to some extent for the Beijing Olympics but in the end all those criticism turned out to be a mere conjecture. Unfortunately it is not so in the case of Delhi CWG.

We are getting sick of reading news about bridge collapsed in CWG venue, ceiling falls inside the stadium, poor maintenance in the athletes village, start athletes pull out fearing security and much more. But the officials doesn’t seam to bother about it and we see officials giving interview that these are minor glitches which do happen not insurmountable.

Responding to allegations that dogs and shit (and dog shit) were to be found in abundance at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village, one organizer said, entirely without irony, that it was a "stray incident". The officials have made a big mistake in assuming that they can fool the International delegation like they do with the local subject on a daily basis.

The hot topics on social networking sites like facebook and twitter are about the Common Wealth Games. The country’s images have never been so torn apart in this magnitude. If this was any other country Kalmadi and other top officials involved will be kicked out long back.

India has been given 48-hours to save the games. I wonder what the Government was doing for the last seven years. We really need a miracle to happen to turn around the present situation. The scars of this will remain deep in the future of the country.

There is nothing to be proud in this common wealth games even if it goes ahead.