Whom to blame for the CWG

Written by Virag

Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:02

And so ended the CWG - the Common Wealth Games - on 14^th October 2010 with a grand finale that spectators described as mesmerizing and spectacular. Something that had started some 3 odd months ago - the Grand CWG discussion - was nearing its fag end.

The grand discussion had various flavors in it, all starting with documents exposing unexplained and unaccounted money transfer and the CWG scam was out in the open. The initial attack on it was lethal - it almost looked as if the games won't happen and everyone was cursing Suresh Kalmadi - the man allegedly behind the corruption - the Chairman of the Organizing Committee.

Finally after a lot of gung-ho and wishy-washy presentations the CWG kicked off with a grand inauguration ceremony and a lot of positive media coverage - for a change.

And that change, changed the entire course of the CWG media coverage; from then onwards it was just a medal tally count that counted when it came to CWG.

People had almost forgotten the fact that the expenditure for the games had bloated by alarming proportions to $ 6 Billion - 60 times the original figure quoted back in 2003 when India got the bid for the games.

Everyone's celebrating the second position of India on the medal tally - something definitely worth celebrating but who takes the blame for this humongous amount of public money that has been wasted?

Who takes the responsibility of the upcoming inflation because of this inflated expenditure?

Was hosting the games successfully and winning some medals the end of it?

And now with the games over, suddenly talks of 'investigations' and 'check-ups' have started. But is this for the first time? Have we not had enough of those useless committees who once again waste public money and create another eyewash in the name of investigations?

Is it not like treating cancer with cancerous cells?

Investigate into wastage of public money, with the public money and have no botheration of accountability for the dual wastage of public money.

And the most important thing is - why does it happen all the time in India? And the answer to that question is simple. Forget Kalmadi, forget Pawar, it's the Indian citizen that's corrupt.

It's the Indian citizen that refuses to take a stand against corruption.

It's the Indian citizen that enjoys reading juicy articles on corruption, discuss it on tea tables and then forget about it the moment the event is over and thus encouraging politicians and bureaucrats to play with public money as they know nothing is going to happen.

If the citizens want this trend of corruption to stop, they have to first stop being corrupt themselves and question the public authorities for misuse of public money - whatever it takes to take the stand. After all, it's our own money, isn't it? And if we do not stand up for it, it's we - the Indian Citizens that are to be blamed - not some Kalmadi!

Are we ready for the blame?

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