On Saturday, boxer Akhil Kumar's bed in the Games Village collapsed, and as if that wasn’t enough, water continues to clog the basement of the Games Village, plumbing problems have surfaced and need to be fixed.
On Saturday, 40 tonnes of dirt was removed from the Village.
Paying close attention to that problem and many others is Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. She will be convening a meeting on Sunday at the Commonwealth Games Village in a few hours from now to take stock of the ground situation. The meeting will be attended by officials from the Organising Committee (OC), the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Dikshit told CNN-IBN on Friday that she was confident that Delhi would pull off a successful event.
On Saturday, 40 tonnes of muck were removed from the Games Village site. The bigger concern is water, which is flooding the basement, needs to be drawn out. Plumbing also needs to be fixed.
“What is remaining is basement… it's a cause of little worry but with sunshine I'm hoping it will dry up and lifts will start…There's no point commenting on passing the buck. I'm absolutely confident,” said Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit.
"Some work is still left to be done at the Games village. Water-logging is there in some of the towers that fall in the river bed. The process of pumping out water from there is going on. It should be completed soon. I will be happy and satisfied only after all the work is completed," said Dikshit on the status of work remaining to be completed at the Village.
When asked about Kalmadi's comment that the venues were not handed over in time, Dikshit said, "This is not the time for blaming each other. This is the time to cooperate and work with each other in order to have a successful Commonwealth Games.”
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