The 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India was marred by a major corruption scandal known as the Commonwealth Games scam. Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the organizing committee, and Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, were accused of irregularities that led to wasteful expenditures and favoring of contractors. It is estimated that the total value of the scam was 70,000 crore (7 billion USD). Kalmadi was accused of hiring equipment and services at prices over 14 times their actual value, causing huge losses to the exchequer. Both Kalmadi and Dikshit were found culpable by investigations and indicted for their roles in the multi-billion dollar corruption scam related to

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Commonwealth Games Scam
The 2010 Commonwealth Games are the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, and the ninth to be held under that
name. The Games are scheduled to be held in Delhi, India between 3 October and 14 October 2010. The games will
be the largest multi-sport event conducted to date in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the
Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
in Delhi. It will also be the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India and the second time the event
has been held in Asia (after 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The 2010 Commonwealth Games was awarded to
Delhi with great fanfare and anticipation as a way for India to show it could hold a world-class sporting event two
years after Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics. It also was a rare hosting of the event by a developing nation:
Mostly the Games rotate between developed countries in the British Commonwealth of nations such as Britain,
Australia and Canada.
Issue [3]
The issue relating to allegation against Kalmadi and others for hiring various equipments, more costly than their
total cost .The Commonwealth games scam as it is known involved large scale misappropriation of money during
the preparatory phase and conduct of the 2010 Commonwealth games held in New Delhi. The total value of the
scam is estimated to be 70,000 crore. Chie f M i ni st er S h e ila Di x it a nd fo r me r c h a ir ma n o f CW G
Or ga ni zi n g Co m mi t te e S ur e s h Ka l mad i fo r v ario u s i rre g ul ari ti es , wa s te ful e xp e nd it ur es a nd
b end i n g no r ms to b e ne f it co ntr a cto r s. T he P M O ha s b e e n i nd ic ted f o r reco m me n d i n g
S ure s h Ka l mad i fo r h ead i n g t h e Or g a niz at io n Co m mi t te e, D el h i C hi ef M i ni st er S hei la
Di k s hi t fo r h er “act i ve i n vo l ve me n t” i n i mp o rt o f li g h ti n g eq uip me n t ca u si n g “a vo id ab l e
exp e nd i t ure o f mo r e t ha n 3 0 cr o r e, a nd Del h i G o ver n me nt head ed b y he r fo r “wa s te fu l
exp e nd i t ure” o f Rs 1 0 0 cr o r e i n s tr e et sc ap i n g a nd b ea ut i fi ca tio n. “Ho wev er, t he d e ci sio n to
u se i mp o rt ed l u mi na r ie s o n se le cted A cat e go r y o f ro ad s wa s n o t b as ed o n tec h n ic a l
p ara me ter s, b u t wa s ta k en wi t h t he ` act i ve i n vo l ve me n t ’ o f t h e C hi e f M i ni s ter ; t h i s re s ul ted

2. in a vo id ab l e e xp e nd it u r e o f mo r e t ha n R s 3 0 cr o re. F u rt her , t h e p ro c ur e me n t o f p r ic e o f
i mp o rt ed l u mi n ar ie s wa s f ar hi g h er t h a n t h e fa ir p rice s. T he C AG r ep o rt sa id t h e l i g ht i n g
eq u ip me n t fr o m Sa ud i A r ab ia co s t o n l y R s.5 0 4 0 p er u ni t. B ut t he v e nd o r s s up p l ied to P W D
fo r a n u nj u s ti f iab l e e xo r b ita n t r a te o f Rs. 2 5 ,7 0 4 . “F ur t her , t he re were n u me ro us d e fi ci e nci es
in t he ap p o i n t me n t a nd ma n a ge me n t o f t he mu l t ip li ci t y o f co ntra ct s fo r ex ter n al co ns u lt a nt
and ad vi so r s,” p i np o i nt i n g t he ir r e g u lar it ie s a nd lac k o f tr a nsp are nc y i n recr ui t me n t b y
Kal ma d i h ead ed Or g a niz in g Co m mi tt ee. Officials of Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee had
hired equipment for overlay works at over 14 times the actual price, One-stop luxury shop Harrods of London sells
one of the world’s best treadmills for Rs 7 lakh. But the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee (OC) shelled
out an astronomical Rs 9.75 lakh for each unit of the fitness equipment (not necessarily the same brand) – that too
on rent. And this is just one of the products which cost the OC a bomb. A roll of tissue – that should cost a mere Rs
35 – being bought for Rs 4,138. Each chair has been rented by the OC at a cost of Rs 8,378 and it has spent Rs 8.8
lakh for every cross-trainer. A 100-litre refrigerator has been hired for an astonishing price of Rs 42,202.
Politicians involved
Suresh Kalmadi (born May 1, 1944) is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He
was formerly a member of the Indian National Congress. He is a Member of
Parliament from Pune. On April 25, 2011 Kalmadi was arrested by CBI for awarding illegal
contracts to a Swiss firm for Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) system for the2010 Commonwealth
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Games causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer. Kalmadi's membership of the Indian
National Congress Party was suspended after being arrested and charged with corruption. On
April 26, 2011 he was sacked from the post of president of the Indian Olympic Association.
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi: Was indicted for several irregularities in the CWG processes both by
Shunglu committee and also by the CAG. Investigators have taken into custody Lalit Bhanot, former secretary-
general of the organizing committee of the October 2010 event.
Also placed under arrest was V.K. Verma, director-general of the committee.
They have been held for a suspected over-priced purchase of a timing, scoring and result systems from a Swiss
company
Corruption
Corruption is the major problem in common wealth game where politician kalmadi involved in cwg
scam where he spend too much money wastefull expenditure. He purchase many equipment more than
fair price. This impact our economy badly .

3. The Commonwealth Games (CWG) Scam 2010 was mainly subdued to many reasons like heavy
economic expenditure that were being severely criticized of. Since there was a huge expenditure that
was being spend into such a big Commonwealth Games, so there was a complete serenity over the fact
that though being spending so much money, yet things were not utilized for the proper ways. There
were so much hush among the poor people to see such notion of huge expenditures being spend
on CWG Scam 2010, but not helping and cutting out the financial costs over the period of time in
India. This is the serious issue of corruption which was done by Suresh kalmadi.
DILEMMA: At the time of cwg , the condition of delhi was poor . it was not in situation to do
common wealth game . even many players from different country don’t want to participate as
condition was not good . Even janpath was not at all ready before 2 week of cwg . proper duty
was not given properly to everyone so kalmadi has misuse the situation and even shiela dixit who
did n’t do her duty well. She must check the duty to whom she give . Kalmadi is the Small
Fish in the Commonwealth Games Scam. The Big Fish is shiela dixit Suresh Kalmadi’s arrest in
connection with allegations of irregularities in the award of a particular contract for the Commonwealth Games is perhaps giving nightmares
to many others.
It is true that Kalmadi had become the face of corruption allegations in the CWG primarily because many others who could have faced similar
allegations cleverly deflected attention from themselves to him. The end result is that the former Chairman of the CWG organizing committee
is spending time in detention for allegedly receiving kickbacks while many others associated with handling many times more money than him
are roaming like free birds.
I am certainly not suggesting that everyone associated with the Games is a crook but I also believe that Kalmadi cannot be the only one who
was the beneficiary of alleged kickbacks. He has already named Manohar Singh Gill, the then sports minister for okaying the contract and
this seems to be just the beginning.
I will like to make it abundantly clear that as per the law of the land, no one can be presumed to be guilty till it is proven in a court of law.
Kalmadi therefore has been arrested in connection with a case registered against him and it is for the CBI to establish his guilt in a proper
court of law. Yes, he is in custody and also under suspension from his own party. But similar allegations have been made against
departments headed by many of his party colleagues like the then urban development minister, Jaipal Reddy, the then sports minister,
Manohar Singh Gill, the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, the Delhi Lt. Governor, Tejinder Khanna and the union tourism minister, Kumari
Selja. It is a matter of time that they too will come under the scrutiny of the CBI like Kalmadi and B S Lalli, the former Chief of Prasar Bharti.
Kalmadi has stated on record that he was only handling Rs 1600 Crores while everyone else was handling budgets of Rs 25,000 crores and
above. The Shunglu committee appointed by the Prime Minister to go into the allegations of corruption has in its report pointed out many
glaring loopholes in the award of contracts. The Shunglu report findings have been marked to the concerned ministries and the home
ministry for necessary action. Action could mean registration of cases by the CBI and also possible arrests. Since Kalmadi has been
arrested, a similar fate could await others if they is a prima facie case made out against them on the basis of the Shunglu committee and the
subsequent investigations by the CBI. In other words, the matter is going to go beyond Kalmadi’s arrest and in the process many skeletons
are going to come tumbling out of many cupboards.
There are two ways of looking at the issue of corruption. One is that the UPA government under DrManmohan Singh is not sparing anyone
and has already booked a Cabinet minister (A Raja), several Corporate honchos and has sent packing a chief minister (Ashok Chavan) in
the Adarash Housing scam and has now arrested Kalmadi. The Congress is using this argument to put the BJP on the defensive for
shielding the allegedly corrupt regimes in Karnataka and Uttaranchal.
The second way of looking at it is that with so many important people being arrested, the Central government seems to have been in the
thick of hugely corrupt activities by many of its functionaries out of which some have been arrested and others may join them soon.
There are also questions being raised that the enforcement agencies have been selective in dealing with corruption allegations. In case of
Kalmadi and some corporate honchos, the action has been firm but in case of Kanimozhi and some others it has been soft. While it is for the
CBI to answer these allegations, there is no denying that the perception of the government having a strong corrupt dimension is gaining
strength. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against whom there has not been any charge of financial corruption seems determined to clean
his stables. He seems to have resolved that he will not allow any person perceived to be corrupt to continue in his or her office.
Therefore it is being assumed that after Kalmadi more arrests may take place in the CWG related scams. There have also been allegations
that many top bureaucrats both at the Centre and in Delhi are trying to absolve themselves even before full investigations have started. But

4. this is going to be of no avail in face of a determined effort by the Prime Minister to bring the guilty to book and to also redeem his sagging
image.
It has to be expected that many more arrests of important personalities may follow and the Congress party will have to keep its contingency
plans intact for appropriate replacements. the government is in a dillema to take action against Kalmadi, as the Commonwealth Games are
just less than two months away.
Actions:
By ensuring that the right person is selected for this major role.
Ensuring that they work well and do their work trustworthy.
Confiscation of asset
Recovery of loss caused to govt.
Punishment should be given to anti corrupted people .