Thursday, December 17, 2009

Additional machinery, staff to speed up CWG preparation: Govt

STAFF WRITER 15:25 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) The apprehensions regarding the progress of work notwithstanding, the Indian government today insisted that the venues for next year's Commonwealth Games would be completed on time by deploying additional machinery and increasing the number of supervisory staff.

Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Prakashbapu Patil said the the progress of work was being monitored closely.

"The work on all the competition venues is progressing at a rapid pace, recovery plans have been worked out, wherever required, which inter-alia, includes increase in the number of supervisory staff and labour, increase in working hours, deployment of additional machinery, close monitoring and procurement of critical and special items, to compete the work within the revised targets," Patil said.

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