COMMONWEALTH

GAMES SCAM
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• It was the first time that the Commonwealth Games were held in India
and the second time they were held in Asia after Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia in 1998.
• The Games were hosted at the Capital City New Delhi.
• 71 countries participated in 2010 commonwealth games, it was a 12
days sports event.
• Around 12 billion Rupees were spent on Infrastructure development.
• There were 20 cities in India which got developed to become a
tourist destination with regard to the event, and a special village COMMONWEALTH
was established known as ‘Game village.’  GAMES IN INDIA
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GAMES
COMMITTEE
 • Suresh Kalmadi, the Congress party representative to 15 Lok Sabha
THE MAN from the Pune constituency.
BEHIND THE • He was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Delhi
SCAM Commonwealth games.
• Kalmadi’s conduct at the 2010 has come under scrutiny 2010
Commonwealth Games

Suresh Kalmadi (born 1 May 1944) is an Indian politician

who spent 10 months in jail from April 2011 to January 2012
on corruption charges related to his time in charge of Delhi
2010.
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• The Commonwealth games scam as it is known involved large scale misappropriation of money.
• The total value of the scam is estimated to be 70,000 crore.
• Issues that were brought into concern were involved for raising many political and administrative aspects that
ruined the part of Commonwealth Games (CWG) Scam 2010.
• There are various other issues that were also brought into focus like maintenance of the venues were delayed
and programme management Scam 2010.
• The charge sheet said that “Kalmadi was the main accused as he was the person with all the supreme powers”.
• In addition to Kalmadi, the CBI named two companies along with Kalmadi and persons including former
Secretary Lalit Bhanot.
 • Suresh Kalmadi awarded an illegal contract for installing the
Time-Scoring Result System to the Swiss Firm at a very high
price of Rs. 141 crores which caused a loss of Rs. 95 crores.

ALLEGATIONS • The OC was responsible for intentionally delaying the overlay

contracts by not providing an estimated amount of Rs. 630
crores, instead it could have saved Rs. 130 crores if they had
negotiated for the overlay contracts
• The OC was also alleged for discrimination on the basis of
race. The participants from African countries complained that
they were second-class treatment as compared to the white
men.
• The OC never revealed the bill or an exact figure of the
expenditure of construction work and other developments with
regard to the CWG as they tried to hide the value of their
spending.
 In August 2010, Suresh Kalmadi, who was the chairman of OC,
asked for an additional Rs. 900 crores from the government of
ALLEGATIONS India when there was no such requirement of that huge amount.

Suresh Kalmadi was considered as the primary accused of the

Commonwealth Scam and charged under section 
120B of Indian Penal Code for the offense of criminal
conspiracy read with sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of IPC for
the offenses of cheating and forgery, and under the section
13(2) read with section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption
Act, 1988. 
 IMPACT OF COMMONWEALTH
SCAM/ETHICAL VIOLATIONS

Social impact
There was a massive exploitation of the labors appointed for the construction work with regard to the CWG 2010. The OC violated the Minimum Wages Act,
1948 by not paying the workers appropriately. 

Environmental impact
The plan of OC to develop 20 cities to make it tourist destination for the foreign participants, it impacted in making 4,00,000 people living in slums homeless.

Economic impact
According to Miloon Kothari, who is a reputed expert on the socio-economic development, the 2010 Commonwealth Scam would create a negative financial
legacy for India.

Political impact
Since Suresh Kalmadi was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he was not refrained from the appointment in the IOA. It came out as a
controversy that the mere appointment of Suresh Kalmadi is an embarrassment for the nation as it gives an image that how corrupt India is. 
 One of the worst social issues of India is corruption. No
matter if the briber is a government official or a
common man, corruption has its roots spread in every
corner of the country. In the case of Commonwealth
Scam, everyone is aware about the hidden reason
behind the increase in expenditure of the organization
CONCLUSION is none other than corrupt practices of the government
servants. Ultimately, it’s the money of the tax-payers
who pay their hard-earned money to the government for
the welfare of the society.
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