Fennell meets Sports Minister to discuss CWG preparations
Amid mounting concerns about the
tardy pace of preparations for next year`s Commonwealth Games,
CGF chief Mike Fennell today met Sports Minister M S Gill to
discuss the progress of work.
|Last Updated: Oct 07, 2009, 09:13 PM IST|Source: Bureau
New Delhi: Amid mounting concerns about the
tardy pace of preparations for next year`s Commonwealth Games,
CGF chief Mike Fennell today met Sports Minister M S Gill to
discuss the progress of work.
Fennell, who arrived in the Capital last night to attend
a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly meet on
October 12, is understood to have discussed the "areas of
concern" with the minister.
The minister briefed Fennell on various projects related
to the October 3 to 14 mega-event.
The meeting comes barely a day after Gill`s meeting with
the Prime Minister in which Manmohan Singh took stock of the
ongoing projects in an hour-long meet also attended by Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit and Planning Commission Deputy
Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia among others.
After the review meeting, the prime minister had asked
the sports minister to coordinate with Indian Olympic
Association officials to fine-tune preparations.
Fennell has also sought a meeting with the prime minister
to brief him about the tardy preparations but has not been
granted any date as yet.
Fennell was miffed with the pace of the capital`s
preparation for the multi-discipline event and fears it is
heading for "partial failure" unless the organisers pull up
their socks and get some experienced foreign experts on board.
Fennell, who arrived here last night, will lead the CGF
General Assembly delegates on tours of the Games venues and
Village.
He will also chair a meeting of the Executive Board on
October 11 and the General Assembly the following day.
Bureau Report
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