Friday, April 1, 2011

Indian gov't reviews Commonwealth Games report (AP)

NEW DELHI – India's polity is reviewing a inform on last year's Commonwealth Games in New metropolis that says organizers spent hundreds of jillions of dollars more than needed, the prime rector said Friday.

The report, commissioned by the polity amid an katzenjammer over alleged corruption, says delays, administrative inefficiency and prodigal spending outlay the polity $355 million.

It says metropolis Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the games' organizing committee were responsible because of depleted oversight.

The inform was submitted this hebdomad by a two-person committee headed by past polity auditor V.K. Shunglu. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said individual ministries were reviewing the findings, including its congratulations of an authorised investigation. The authorisation itself is exclusive exploratory, and has no power to enter charges or visit investigations.

India had hoped the Commonwealth Games would project the land as a ascension superpower, but instead was deeply embarrassed by corruption allegations, cerebration delays and outlay overruns as the budget ballooned to 700 1000000000 rupees ($15 billion) from the estimated 18.9 1000000000 rupees ($412 million).

Dikshit has dismissed the committee's report, locution the accusations against her were defamatory and "mischievous."

A Switzerland-based consort contracted to advise on circumstance planning, impact obligate hold and utilization of sports venues also disputed the report's conclusions. Event Knowledge Services said the committee never made any attempt to occurrence it for information, but nevertheless made "unsubstantiated" implications of wrongdoing.

Company CEO Craig McLatchey said the inform showed the committee lacked travail in its enquiry as well as a base understanding of how circumstance thinking works.

"Its conclusions are based on suppositions that are not based by fact. We reject it completely," he said.

EKS plans to submit a salutation to the polity within life "to clear up the fact and logic gaps" in the report, McLatchey said.


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