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1. A SHORT
SUMMARY……
COMMON
WEALTH
SCAM
2010

2. What the Scam Is all
About????
• The Commonwealth Games is an international, multisport event involving athletes from the
Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in
1930 and has taken place every four years ever the
games are described as the third largest multi-sport
event in the world, after the Olympic Games and the
Asian Games.
• The games are overseen by the Commonwealth Games
Federation (CGF), which also controls the sporting
programme and selects the host cities. A host city is
selected for each edition and 18 cities in seven countries
have hosted the event.

3. What the Scam Is all
About????
• There were currently 54 members of the commonwealth of
nation and 72 teams participate in the games held in 2010 in
India in which there are 260 events in 17 disciple.
• 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.
• 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.

4. What the Scam Is all
About????
• There are various other issues that were also
brought into focus like maintenance of the
venues were delayed and programme
management had a flop show out of the desk
to make a big mess of Commonwealth
Games Scam 2010.
• There could have been no words to raise the
ill works of the people concerning the big
International Sporting Event in our country.

5. Parties Involved in scam
• Suresh kalmadi, the Congress party
representative to 15 LokSabha from the Pune
constituency. He was the Chairman of the
Organising Committee of the Delhi
Commonwealth games.
• Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi.
• Robert Vadra ( Son In Law Of Sonia Gandhi )
• Jaypee Group.
• MTNL.

6. Sociology-Economic Impact
• 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 huge volumes of children and
people being hired on day night prospects which
enamored the worst part of using them up in
CWG Games Project aspect.

7. No Proper Organization
• Another important reason why there was a big loss
was poor support staff to look after the CWG
Games 2010 schedule and places where there needs
to be very proper attendance and has to be paid on a
regular basis.
• the selling of the tickets were totally much to
disappointed concerns since it looked like as if there
were of no need to comply with the regulations that
broke into CWG. While the general public is
unable to buy tickets, with all outlets reporting that
all the venues have been sold out, one witnesses
nearly half the venues empty for every event.

8. Infrastructure Failure
• With just 12 days to go for the Games, a new
foot over-bridge near the main venue of the
Games, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
collapsed, injuring 23 laborers, five of them
critically.
• Actually certain projects like Airport Metro
Express construction delayed out because of
various aspects and were unable to complete
the project on time which gave a big issue
again to Delhi Government

9. Response to scam
• Kalmadi and Bhanot were sacked from the
Organising Committee by the Sports
ministry on Jan 2011.
• Shunglu panel was constituted by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to go into the
irregularities in the conduct of the Games.
• After his arrest on 25 Apr 2011, Suresh
kalmadi was suspended by the Indian
National Congress.

10. Conclusion
• Suresh Kalmadi who masterminded the
scam has refused to even quit his posts in
Olympic Association with tacit support of
Congress party. India was humiliated in
world stage when World Olympic
Association.
• The scam was unearthed by CAG even
before the conduct of the games. Presently
the scam is being probed by the CBI.

11. By : Nisha chauhan
( CA Student)