Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi yesterday said the government had appointed 11 top bureaucrats to oversee the last phase of work for the mega event at the request of the organising committee and there was no take over of the Games.
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi yesterday said the government had appointed 11 top bureaucrats to oversee the last phase of work for the mega event at the request of the organising committee and there was no "take over" of the Games.
"We are in the final phase for the Commonwealth Games. We requested the prime minister and the cabinet secretary to give us 10 government officers.
They have come at our request and they will co-ordinate. They have not come to take over the organising committee as reported in some sections of the media. The media is saying that my wings have been clipped, probably because I was a fighter pilot," said Kalmadi at a press conference.
The officials, of the rank of additional secretary and joint secretary, were named by the Cabinet Secretariat and given charge of one stadium, a government spokesman said.
The officers are Subodh Kumar (additional secretary, Department of Telecommunication), SR Rao (additional secretary, Department of Information Technology), RC Mishra (additional secretary, Ministry of Urban Development), Amarjeet Singh (executive director, Janasankhya Sthirata Kosh, Ministry of Health), JS Deepak (joint secretary, Ministry of Commerce), Rohit Nandan (joint secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation), Shashi Shekar (OSD, Power Trading Corporation Ltd), Taradatt (joint secretary, Cabinet Secretariat), Gopal Krishna (secretary, Sports Authority of India), Rajeev Kapoor (joint secretary, Department of Personnel and Training) and Injeti Srinivas (joint secretary, Ministry of Sports).
The newly appointed officials will report directly to Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, the spokesman said.
Earlier Thursday, Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for about 30 minutes to discuss issues related to the Games and infrastructure development.
