Hey everyone, CEA's debate for tomorrow is on the subject of the Commonwealth Games. It will be nice if everyone will attend this as I am sure a lot of pertinent points will be raised on all the botch-ups that were made and it is very relevant to what we study as well.
I also think they will take up the Olympics Hosting issue at the end. For a point :- The paragraph below is from Wiki.
Costs
The initial total budget estimated by Indian Olympic Association in 2003 for hosting the Games was 
16.2 billion (US$364.5 million) but escalated official total budget estimation in 2010 became 115 bn ($2.6 B), which excludes non-sports-related infrastructure development in the city such as airports, city beautification and roads.[18] Business Today magazine estimated that the Games cost 300 bn ($6.8 bn).[19] The 2010 Commonwealth Games are the most expensive Gaming event ever.
There was an article once in the Hindu which had a big list of incomplete infrastructure when the commonwealth games was inagurated. I can't find it, but when I do, I'll post it in the comments.
Srinath
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