All agencies involved in the preparation of the Commonwealth Games were today directed by a Group of Ministers – GOM – to hand over the venues to the Organising Committee by the last day of this month. The GOM decided that the testing of various equipment and networks to be installed will commence from first of next month.The GoM on Commonwealth Games which met in New Delhi also considered the status of the venues and took note of the problems being faced.Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Sindhu Shree Khullar told reporters after the meeting that the network and technology that are to be installed will be installed by the ned of this month.He said that all the GoM took all details from the officers and tried to find out the prevailing deficiencies.Besides, the GoM also discussed the housekeeping issues. The meeting was attended by the Chief Minister of Delhi Shiela Dikshit, Lt-Governor Tejinder Khanna, Sports Minister M S Gill, Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, officials from DDA, PWD, CPWD and Delhi government among others.
News On AIR | August 20, 2010 7:43 PM
GOM directs agencies to hand over venues to OC by last day of this month