Commonwealth games is an international multi sports event. In this games involved sportsmen of commonwealth countries. This games organize by common wealth federation .This federation controlled the events and select the host country for this events. In this event history eighteen cities and seven countries host the commonwealth games till now.
The first commonwealth games organized in 1930, Hamilton(Canada).where eleven countries sent their 400 athletes take part in games. After some years, games have been held after four years. After second
World war seen many changes in the events. From 1930 to1950 games known as British empire games ,From 1954 to 1966 the games known as British empire commonwealth games and from1970 to 1974 this games known as British commonwealth games. In 1978 this multi sports event finally known as commonwealth games.
Table showing the growth of the Commonwealth Games from 1930 to 2010
Year
Host City / Country
Participating Countries
Sports
Events Contested
Athletes
1930
Hamilton, Canada
11
6
59
400
1934
London, England
16
6
68
500
1938
Sydney, Australia
15
7
71
464
1950
Auckland, New Zealand
12
9
88
590
1954
Vancouver, Canada
24
9
91
662
1958
Cardiff, Wales
35
9
94
1122
1962
Perth, Australia
35
9
104
863
1966
Kingston, Jamaica
34
9
110
1050
1970
Edinburgh, Scotland
42
9
121
1383
1974
Christchurch, New Zealand
38
9
121
1276
1978
Edmonton, Canada
46
10
128
1474
1982
Brisbane, Australia
46
10
142
1583
1986
Edinburgh, Scotland
26
10
163
1662
1990
Auckland, New Zealand
55
10
204
2073
1994
Victoria, Canada
63
10
217
2557
1998
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
70
15
213
3633
2002
Manchester, England
72
17
281
3679
2006
Melbourne, Australia
71
16
245
4049
2010
Delhi, India
71
17
Commonwealth games in india, Triathlon. Its a matter of pride for our nation to host such an spectacular event for the first time. Its an golden opportunity for India to portray itself as a strong sporting and cultural nation as well as an emerging economic power of the world . New Delhi, the national capital of India is hosting the event and Jawaharlal Nehru stadium is the main venue for this esteem sporting event. Elite athletes and sports personalities from 85 nations are participating in this 12 days long multi -sports event which will be start on 3rd October and ends on 14th October. Some of the sports that will be the highlight of Common Wealth Games 2010 are Cycling, Netball, Rugby, Weightlifting, Shooting, Squash, Table Tennis, Aquatics, Athletics, Gymnastics, Hockey, Badminton, Basketball, Bowls, Boxing and
THE ROLE OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES
FEDRETION (CGF)
Commonwealth games federation is responsible for organize the games and events in any countries .Commonwealth games is a unique world class multi sport event which held once every four years. It is always reffered to as friendly games.
CGF also encourage and assist education sports development and physical re creation.
EFFECT ON INDIAN ECONOMY OF
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
India was a country shamed by charges of corruption, being inept and was even being given repeated deadlines for garnering evidence of India's ability to hold the games which were under serious threat of being moved elsewhere on an almost a daily basis.
Scandals gained fire through prominent International Newspapers and Tabloids about certain misdoings by "certain" people and much ado was made out of almost nothing.
There were pictures of an Indian Special Forces team of "Langurs" being assigned the role of protection of Athletes after the foot-over bridge debacle as Team India looked set for one delay after the next.
Some however would argue that at times, negative publicity does more of a job in raising awareness than positive publicity.
As things stand today, we are on day 2 of the games and India continues to be a lauded for hosting perhaps the most exciting event held in recent years with the opening ceremony being labeled as an extravagant combination of visuals and events showcasing over 5000 years of India's history and cultural diversity.
Here are some recent facts; the ever growing Indian economy is set to rake in an estimated $ 4900 million(more than the combined figures gained by the events held in Manchester, UK and Sydney, Australia) and around 2.5 million employment opportunities (such as the new air terminal, metro rail, power plant and expressways) over the next four years! The GDP figures look to rise around 8% in the foreseeable future with India putting its firm authority to be a likely winner of any future bids on extravaganzas of the sort!
There is however speculation that all may not end well as estimated as most of the nations in the past have suffered after holding an event of such magnitude. Greece recently suffered the pain after holding the Athens Olympics 2004.
According to us, by the looks of things, India Inc should be able to cope up and do well. Yes, the people of Delhi will suffer a bit in terms of price increase in basic commodities and property purchase, as taxes might experience a bit of hike. However as far as the Indian stock market is concerned things couldn't get much better!
According to the Economist, India looks almost ready to outpace China soon! This report is being based on facts yet again. Thanks to a young and growing workforce along with its democratic stature, India should experience a hike of around 8% in the coming year.
Given a choice between doing business in China or India, FII's at the moment are picking China, However, as the global economy becomes more knowledge-intensive, India's advantage will grow, with most Companies already preferring India for its knowledge based processes(Outsourcing=India Inc).
India's advantage seems to be yet another fact that India being a place where Ideas tend to flow more openly in comparison to its neighbor in the north.
India should also find a further development in Private Hospitals and Medical Tourism should also give India a huge competitive advantage in securing its position as major tourist hotspot in the forthcoming years!
ADVANTAGES
Encourage to Indian tourism industries.
Encourage to sports.
Encourage to good infrastructure and labor industry.
India would achieve after hosting such big games.
DISADVANTAGES
A poor country like us should better invest in resolving its huge bunch
of problems.
The income generated from these events will be less than, what would be put into these events and would be temporary too.
No planning of what will be done with the hospitality industry, after the games completes.
Preparations haven't finished yet and everyone is afraid, if it would defame India, just because of pathetic bureaucracy in our country.
REVIEW OF LITREATURE
Commonwealth Games: Corruption and Pride, A Debate
BY- Sanskar Shrivastava
AfteOr seeing the dirty pictures of the toilets of commonwealth games village in Delhi this month, the feeling of pride which Indians had in their mind turned somewhat into a feeling of shame. And the only thing the media and people could blame on were corrupted organizers, lack of inter department coordination and at some point of time people themselves and media for only covering and reporting the negative aspect of the games.
"Feel proud that India was able to defeat the developed nations, Canada in particular, in the bidding. After all this mess, All the major participating countries have given thumbs up to the village. You should see the picture of the commonwealth games venues. You will be really amazed that such infrastructure exists in India. India has been working since 2004 on this, and deadlines were missed due to corruption. Which is a global problem. Even in Melbourne commonwealth, players were forced to live in hotels as their village was not ready. XIX Commonwealth games is the wealthiest game and greenest as well. Many earlier commonwealth games ran out of money during preparations."
Commonwealth Games OR Kamao Wealth Games
BY- Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
TOTAL MONEY SPENT IN COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Rs 28,054 crore have been spent on the games out of which Rs 16,560 crore was given to the Delhi Government for upgrading the capital infrastructure and building of various stadia.
Delhi Government has spent on various projects which includes Rs 650 crore for street scraping, Rs 900 crore for development bus depots, Rs 3,000 crore for extension of Metro, Rs 18,000 crore for augmenting DTC bus services and Rs 3,700 crore on flyovers and bridges.
Of the Rs 11,494 crore spent by the centre, Rs 2.934 crore was spent on sports infrastructure and Rs 678 crore on training of teams, while Rs 182 crore has been given to MTNL, Rs 827.85 crore to the Ministry of Urban Development, Rs 487.57 to Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Rs 747 crore to Health Ministry.
The government has also given Rs 2,394 crore as loan to the organising committee, which is to be returned by them after the games.
The Delhi Government has also spent Rs 400 crore on parking facilities, Rs 200 crore on communications and IT and Rs 2,000 crore on power plants.
Lots left to do, India's image hit: Games chief
BY- Hindustan Time
Suresh Kalmadi, the OC chief, said other agencies should be blamed for the mess. "I am not the constructing agency, which was supposed to hand over the Village to us," he said.
On whether the CGF took things lightly during Fennell's last visit on August 18, when he said things would be ready by September 23, the original date for athletes to enter the Village, Fennell said he did warn the OC about the work that needed to be done. "I had asked them to clean up the Village. I also told the OC that things need to be replaced." Asked about safety concerns, he said that concerns still remain about evacuation from the towers in case of an emergency and health.
While Perry Crosswhite, the head of the Australian CGA, and Chris Jenkins, the chef de mission of Wales, were happy that the pace of work had picked up, the New Zealand team has delayed its entry.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010: I'm happy to be a slumdog, says Tour de France star Cavendish
BY- Ian Stafford
'There is no question that a great deal of work still needs to be done. The water in the basements of the buildings is proving difficult to remove and I have great concern for the safety and security of athletes and officials. I will monitor the situation on a daily basis.'
Asked if he believed India had let down the Commonwealth Games, Fennell said: 'Yes, we're disappointed with a number of issues concerning India. We couldn't bring our athletes into this mess and I'm very sad that this work has not been done better. A lot of damage has been done to India as a host country.
'India is the largest country in the Commonwealth and it is absolutely right that the Games should have come here but after what has happened, we are learning a great deal about what it is like working with a country like India.'
Kalmadi accepted his share of blame but added: 'We were not involved for a long time. It was the constructors. 'This was not my responsibility. Monitoring the situation was my responsibility. Everything will be OK and our aim is to make these Games at least as good as Melbourne four years ago.'
At India's Commonwealth Games, shame
might be a blessing
BY- Subash kalra
Shame is the word of the week here, with 10 days left before the scheduled opening ceremony of what the erstwhile jewel in the British crown once hoped would be the largest and most impressive Commonwealth Games ever. Now, the growing fear is that the event may not come off at all, as the threat looms of a boycott by England, Scotland and Wales.
Even as organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi struggled to persuade a skeptical and hostile press that the city and venues would be ready, the seemingly endless problems mounted.
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot two Taiwanese tourists in a possible terrorist attack over the weekend. On Tuesday a footbridge attached to one of the entrances for the showpiece Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium collapsed, injuring 27 workers and leaving three laborers in critical condition.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPERTATION
Common Wealth Gains
The sponsorship and promotional activities revolving around the ongoing Commonwealth Games are going to raise the assets of the Delhi government. According to analyst it is estimated that 4,500 crore is estimated to be generated in terms of revenue. According to the Associated Chambers of commerce and Industry of India GDP might raise from 1,17,00o crore to Rs 1,75,000 crore- an increase of 49 percent.Many privatised hospitals from Delhi as well as from NCR has owned by Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) and it is believed that they can earn revenues over Rs 540 crore through increased inflow of domestic and foreign tourists.
Common Wealth Games 2010 no doubt is one of the biggest sporting events hosted by India. History says that wherever this type of sports are organised, the host country benefited in various range of sectors.According to report, Common Wealth Games increases employment opportunity in sectors like hospitality, aviation, civil engineering, eco-tourism and medical. Recent modernisation of Mumbai and Delhi lead 35 metro airports, airlines which lead to create 2.5 lakhs job in airport industries.Beside this sporting event also hire unorganised sectors like dope control, ceremonies, image and look, spectator control and legal.The main focus behind organising this event is to showcase India's varied culture and heritage to foreigners.
CONCLUSION
The commonwealth games 2010 are big opertunity for the india. Political & financial corruption could scare the face of india in conducting such big event.
There have been many reports on the corruption scandle of commonwealth games 2010
Missed link
The idea of conducting international events come from the wishes of leaders to keep their country in the spotlight of purposes of improving business attracting tourist and financially contribiution the growth of the country. It is surprising the growth figures prime minister manmohan singh has he missed the link between CWG success and his aspiration for surpassing the china growth rate
Image blurring
Indian rulers are keen to not let any spats like H-1 B vise fee hike ,outsourcing bans and restrictions on exports on the US play spoilsport during US president barrack obama visit later on November . however, they seem to how a failure or even a partial failure in conducting CWG is going to affect the Indian image on the economic front.
Missing target
India is somewhat notorious for missing its targets due to several issue whether the GST (GOODS AND SERVICE TEX) issuance of unique ID to its citizens a proper response to the Kashmir struggle , reducing inflation.
