The CPWD has set up an internal committee, headed by the additional director general (CWG), to look into the arrangements and construction-related problems in the 10 stadia constructed, renovated or remodelled by the agency for the Commonwealth Games-2010. The move comes in the wake of reports of leakages at two stadia.

The middle circle of Connaught Place, which had been dug up to lay a duct for accommodating cables of various types, is being filled up to provide a smooth, motorable surface for the Commonwealth Games 2010. But wary of the labour force returning and begin digging up the entire area again after the Games, the traders have

Even as the DDA has promised nearly 4,000 rooms at Vasant Kunj flats project for the Commonwealth Games-2010 by September 10, it is going to be a tough ask before one can say that the place will be “battle ready” in time.

MCD mayor P.R. Sawhney has directed the municipal commissioner to submit all the internal vigilance report pertaining to the Commonwealth Games projects to him. However, he maintained that the credibility of the CBI was suspicious and there should be a judicial inquiry into the allegation of corruption.

The pressure to show that projects are being completed in time for the Games has begun telling on the civic agencies and others related to the Games extravaganza as they seem to be on a spree of declaring a stadia “inaugurated” even when several crucial works remain. The Sunday fiasco of inaugurating a leaking weightlifting stadium, CPWD officials maintain, may have been avoided had they been allowed three or four more days.

The deadline for the DDA’s Vasant Kunj flats project, which was to be developed for accommodating delegates and mediapersons, besides tourists, has been pushed back from August 31 to September 10. The authorities concerned are trying to tide over severe shortage of labour.

With the D-day being less than three months away, the Union tourism ministry is planning to revive the training programme for autorickshaw and taxi drivers ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The programme had run into rough weather with the drivers not turning up at the training venues.

The NDMC and the traders in Connaught Place are awaiting anxiously these days for the two Games projects currently going on at Connaught Place, to get over at the earliest possible. While the CP restoration project is nearly 90 to 95 per cent over, the other project of installing four escalators in CP’s outer circle and laying of duct for wires in the middle circle is keeping the authorities on their toes.

The drive of the Delhi government’s tourism department to register tour operators and travel agents before the Commonwealth Games to ensure hassle-free stay and travel for the tourists has again been extended till September 30. The earlier deadline was June 30, which in turn had been extended from the previous deadline of March 29. The drive was initiated on January 28.

The state of environment report 2010, released here by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday, underlines the need for restoring the natural resources and assets in their pristine form to meet the future challenges in the city. It also points out that the greening efforts of the government by planting saplings were not enough,