Kalmadi guarantees CoCom members of significant development
May 3rd, 2010 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 3 (ANI): The Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC), Suresh Kalmadi, on Monday assured the members of the Coordination Commission (CoCom) of the Commonwealth Games Federation that significant progress has been made in all areas towards successfully hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
The committee would itself witness the considerable progress in all areas since their last visit in December 2009, said Kalmadi in his inaugural address at the opening session of the CoCom meeting here, chaired by its President Austin Sealy.
“A lot of progress has taken place since the previous CoCom visit. The city of Delhi will be ahead by 10 years in terms of modern state of the art infrastructure and stadiums,” said Kalmadi.
“I am thankful for all the support and guidance that CoCom has extended to our team and their pledge to continue to support the organising committee in successful organisation of Delhi Games,” he added.
Kalmadi further said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has showing interest in the build-up to the Games and had organised the meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to take stock of the entire efforts.
Austin Sealy praised the efforts of Kalmadi and said: “I have toured the venues including the main press centre and broadcasting centre and found them good.”
Earlier in December last year, the seven-member CoCom delegation had reviewed New Delhi’s preparation for the mega event. (ANI)
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