Kalmadi appointed on basis of NDA approved contract: Govt

With CAG report stating Suresh Kalmadi was appointed CWG Organising Committee chief based on a PMO recommendation,government Friday said he was elected to the post by the IOA as per the Host City Contract approved by the NDA regime and “there was no scope for any change”. Games Management Protocol of Host City Contract approved […]

With CAG report stating Suresh Kalmadi was appointed CWG Organising Committee chief based on a PMO recommendation,government Friday said he was elected to the post by the IOA as per the Host City Contract approved by the NDA regime and “there was no scope for any change”.

Games Management Protocol of Host City Contract approved in September,2003 says that the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) only will form the Organising Committee (OC).

“When an international contract is signed by a secretary to the Government of India,there was no scope for any change,” Sport Minister Ajay Maken said..

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He also rejected a suggestion that the decision to appoint Kalmadi as OC chairman facilitated the conversion of the originally envisaged government-run OC into a body outside government control.

In a statement issued separately,Maken said as per the Host City Contract signed on November 13,2003 by the IOA,Delhi’s Lt Governor and the then Sports Secretary,it was the Commonwealth Games Association – IOA in case of India which was to establish the OC to organise the Games.

The Cabinet of the NDA government,in a decision taken on September 11,2003,had also agreed to underwrite any shortfall between revenue and expenditure of OC,” the statement said.

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