Games: Delhi to get 3,000 cr /British firm bids for advice

Delhi to get 3,000 cr for C’wealth Games

(Hindustan Times)

Chetan Chauhan

New Delhi, September 14

The Centre has agreed to give about Rs 3,000 crore to prepare for the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Additional money will be raised from the market. Senior government officials told the Hindustan Times that Delhi will get an additional Rs 500 crore each year from central funds for the games.

Officials say the initial plan is to build 15-20 flyovers and subways for the games. "The idea is that the distance between the games village near the Nizamuddin bridge and the sports venues should not take more than 5-10 minutes to cover and it should be signal-free," an official said.

Officials say nearly Rs 1,000 crore will be required to build the games village for about 10,000 sportsmen and officials. After the games, the village will be used as a hostel for Delhi University students

British firm bids for advice on '10 Games

(Daily Pioneer)

Rajesh Kumar/ New Delhi

UK-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a firm engaged in sports business, has offered to assist the Delhi Government in its preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The Union Government, meanwhile, has set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to monitor the preparations for the Games. HRD Minister Arjun Singh will head the GoM, which includes Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Sport and Youth Affairs Minister Sunil Dutt, Urban Development Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, I&B Minister Jaipal Reddy, Minister for NRI affairs Jagdish Tytler, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Lieutenant Governor BL Joshi.

The Sport Business Group at Deloitte has offered to assist the Delhi Government in programme management, infrastructure master planning, community involvement, financial planning and resource mobilisation, marketing, communication, public relation, commercial rights and ticketing which include contracts & negotiations with various agencies, managing all the tax & legal implications of these transactions. The company had written to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in this regard on August 12.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is the world's largest professional services firm (Audit, Tax, Consulting, Financial Advisory) in the sports business. "We have been involved in pre as well as post bid activities for several large and reputed events like the England & Wales Cricket Board for the Cricket World Cup 1999, the Football Association for Euro 1996, the Common-wealth Games Federation (pre-2002), the British Olympic Association-London 2012 bid, the Rugby Football Union 2007 world cup bid and the UK Athletics-World Championship 2005 bid," Deloitte has said in its proposal. The infrastructure master planning include facilities and venues planning, stadia sizing, transportation & logistics, accommodation planning & planning inter-linkages. While programme management include long listing, scheduling, coordination and monitoring (MIS) of all the tasks & activities associated with the build-up to the event.

The company in its presentation said that community involvement also include identifying roles and responsibilities of multiple stake holders including local and national sporting clubs and association.

The Commonwealth Games are being budgeted at around $ 100 million and are expected to be attended by 6000 athletes and 2000 officials