Countdown to 2010 Games: making room

As the Ministry of Tourism races against time to procure the 1,50,000 hotel rooms required for the 2010 Commonwealth Games...

As the Ministry of Tourism races against time to procure the 1,50,000 hotel rooms required for the 2010 Commonwealth Games,hotel promoters in the National Capital Region announced this month that they have completed the construction of more than 40 per cent of the required rooms. Newsline takes a peek at the status

* It had initially been estimated that 40,000 rooms would be required for the Games,of which Delhi already had around 10,000 rooms. Most of these rooms are in the budget-hotel category.

* Of the current requirement of 1,50,000 rooms,around 9,597 rooms are to be made available in the NCR region.

* According to Tourism ministry officials,of the 9,597 rooms,construction of 3,952 rooms has already been completed.

* It is estimated that an additional 30,000 rooms in Delhi and the NCR zone would be required.

* In December 2008,the Haryana government said it would be able to provide 7,000 rooms in the NCR region as against the 9,000 rooms it had promised earlier.

* The UP government similarly scaled down its original target of 7,000 rooms to about 2,000.

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* To compensate for the missing rooms,the DDA will come up with three-star housing schemes at Jasola and Vasant Kunj,providing 5,500 flats. Work on these flats has already been started.

* DDA will now also build around 4,500 rooms by March 2010.

* Apart from hotel rooms,11,000 rooms will be made available from the approved guest houses whose services are currently being upgraded.

* An additional 3,000 rooms are to be provided under the state governments Bed-and-Breakfast scheme.

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