The Central Vigilance Commission on Saturday launched an inquiry into reports that some of the medical equipment to be installed at polyclinics at the Commonwealth Games Village and other competition venues were bought at six to seven times the original cost of the equipment. The CVC has already found irregularities in various contracts related to the Games where prices were raised after the contract was awarded.

Visitors at the Commonwealth Games will now have an easy interaction with the local police. The city government, after a recommendation by Organ-ising Committee officials during a recent Cabinet meeting, has decided to deploy its complaint cell officials at all Games sites.

A week has passed since chief minister Sheila Dikshit had asked the civic agencies to work through the nights to complete the pending Games projects, the civic agencies on Friday have given a requirement of nearly 2,000 extra labourers on various pending projects to the government.

Differences between Delhi finance minister A.K. Walia and chief minister Sheila Dikshit over the latter allegedly promoting her MP son Sandeep Dikshit now threatens to derail a Commonwealth Games “branding” campaign, with the Games just over two months away.

The concerns over high volume of traffic on Ring Road has forced the authorities to utilise the virtually defunct “Ring Rail” to transport people and also commercial goods. The step has been taken to decongest the two main peripheral roads around the city in wake of the Commonwealth Games. However, no extra trains have been proposed so far. Officials say that the existing fleet of trains — both passenger and commercial — would be used for the purpose.

Around 3,000 school buses in neighbouring Gurgaon and Noida will be off roads during the Commonwealth Games to overcome traffic congestion and allow smooth movement to tourists to the Games venues. The schools falling in the main city areas will be closed, while those in the outer areas will be spared.
A decision to shut down the schools and colleges in the city during the event has already been taken.

While the Delhi government is intensifying measures to check pollution in the city for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, some athletes from Canada and New Zealand have decided to train themselves in Singapore to avoid pollution. The athletes will be reaching Delhi just a day before the opening ceremony of the Games.

Athlete or other participants injured during practice or event would be provided the best health facilities as state-of-the-art sports polyclinics are being set up at all Games venues as well as at pr

In order to ensure that the pollution levels in the city go down to acceptable levels during the Commonwealth Games, the government is likely to ask the operators of commercial vehicles to go for alternative routes to ferry consignments across the states.

Amid the anxiety over Commonwealth Games projects missing deadlines, there is finally some good news with authorities claiming that the crucial Barapulla Nala elevated road project — which will connect the Games Village with the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium — will be completed in July, nearly a month before the deadline. Earlier, it was feared that the project may finish in mid-September, perilously close to Games.