New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a ministerial panel, headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, to examine the findings of the Shunglu Committee that probed alleged irregularities in conduct of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last year.
The Group of Ministers, set up last week, has been asked to consider the responses of the Union Ministries, the Delhi government and its various agencies to the findings of the high-level committee headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General VK Shunglu.
The Shunglu Committee has so far submitted six reports on the Commonwealth Games to the government. ...
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07:41 PM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Organisation Committee has sent its point-wise replies to the Sports Ministry on the Shunglu Committee findings seeking to put the blame on jailed former OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi and other officials for large-scale irregularities. Sources said that the two-volume reply in about 1,000 pages has been sent and former top officials, including Kalmadi, have been held responsible on issues like ticketing, illegally inflated budgeting, Beijing...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: After former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi charged with criminal conspiracy and cheating, and sent to police custody, all eyes are now on the others, who were blamed for the Commonwealth Games chaos. The Shunglu Committee, in its report last month, had also nailed the Delhi government for various irregularities in CWG projects and the BJP has asked why officials in the Delhi government haven't been proceeded...
01:11 PM, Apr 26, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday stepped up its attack on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit demanding her removal and ordering a CBI probe into CWG spendings by city government following the Shunglu Committee report which blamed her for irregularities in certain Games projects. The party held a protest demonstration near Jantar Mantar demanding Dikshit's sacking and slammed her for rejecting the findings of the Prime Minister-appointed panel. "The Shunglu Committee...
06:03 PM, Mar 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Shunglu Panel, investigating the scam surrounding CWG, has submitted its third report dealing with corruption in civic agencies. For a long time it was Suresh Kalmadi, who was blamed as the fall guy, and now it's Shiela Dixit's turn to face the heat. Dealing with the chaos that Delhi's civic infrastructure had become, the third report of the Shunglu Panel has slammed the Delhi government and its...
02:00 PM, Mar 25, 2011
