Kalmadi OC pays NDMC Rs 66cr/yr office rent
The organising committee of the Commonwealth Games, led by Mr Suresh Kalmadi, which is now under the scanner for various alleged financial irregularities, is paying the New Delhi Municipal Council a whopping Rs 66 crores per annum as rent for its current office at the New Delhi City Centre (NDCC)-II, adjacent to the NDMC
headquarters, on Jai Singh Road in New Delhi. In fact, it would pay an additional Rs 33 crores even after the Games is over in October as it has leased the office space upto April 2011.
The move to rent more than 1.25 lakh square feet of office space by the OC at the NDCC-II follows a series of steps that have already been questioned by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG). Beginning from a modest office at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in 2006, the OC went on to pay rent and additional money to the tune of several crores to the Indian Olympic Association Bhavan at Qutab Institutional Area for nearly 20,000 square feet of office space without actually using it.
The OC had initially rented eight floors — from the second to the ninth — in the building. This was in September 2008, when the NDMC agreed to lease out the property which had taken 14 years to build. One more floor was added later.
NDMC spokesperson Anand Tiwari said: “The first floor was rented by the OC in January this year.” The total space rented by the OC in the new office is more than 1.25 lakh square feet.
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