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Bornbaby

Commonwealth Games 2010: more Australian athletes expected to withdraw

More Australian atheletes could pull out of competing in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi as fears grow over the safety of the event.

Yesterday Dani Samuels, a discus champion, announced she would not take part in the Games because of security and health concerns.

Samuels said she had been unable to sleep or open her Commonwealth Games uniform because she was so frightened about leaving for India following attacks on tourists in Delhi and the collapse of a footbridge in the Games complex.

Bornbaby

Now, smaller teams consider withdrawal from Commonwealth Games

A day after the visiting Commonwealth delegates objected to "unliveable conditions in the Games village, some of the smaller teams are now considering withdrawing.

David Harry, chef de mission of the 43-strong Guernsey team, said: "The next two days are vital. The monsoon caused real problems and you do have some sympathy, but then again they should not have left themselves in this position. There is a possibility that we will pull out.

Alan Cross, secretary of the Jersey Commonwealth Games Association, said: "We have to make a decision in the next 24 hours whether to take part or not. There is a risk we will not. It seems very likely that the accommodation will not be ready in time. If the first big team pulls out then others may follow. We are very, very unhappy and disappointed. In the future, members will be very reluctant to vote for cities from developing countries again which is a real shame."

Among the evidence apparently submitted by the Scottish delegation is a photograph of a dog defecating on a bed in the games village.

faraway1

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    ko backpacking which part of india ?
atira Post at 23-9-2010 21:03

dulu me travel kat south,
bulan 12 nanti kat north pulak.

abgboroi

kemudahan di India byk yg runtuh
kat Malaysia pun sama
isunya serupa..
masalah rasuah!
R2D2 Post at 24-9-2010 09:27

    masalah bumbung runtuh kat malaysia ni bukan sebab rasuah tapi terlalu banyak mengamalkan nepotisme...cuba ko bagi adik ko renovate rumah ko apa jadi? kelayakan penting utk sesuatu projek...x kisah laa berapa banyak duit kuar pun asalkan kerja tersebut berkualiti

faraway1

aku x pasti ape y ko bgtau tu betul ke x.
tapi melalui pemerhatian aku.
dkat malaysia ko x dpt layanan as tourist spt die india.. sbb ko org msia..
cuba ko org afrika ke, belanda colombia ke.. pstu dtg msia.. confirm layanan y ko dpt 1st class.
kazaraf Post at 23-9-2010 21:02

kenapa pulak me nak dilayan seperti tourist di negara sendiri
tetapi malangnya me memang dilayan seperti tourist bila sesekali balik msia

by the way me bukan sentuh pasal layanan,
maksud me adventure, keindahan alam, banyak msia tak da...

abgboroi

Ramai2 pakat tarik diri . Malaysia macam mana pulak.
matsyeh Post at 24-9-2010 10:19

semua nak cabut sebab ada asian games november nanti...australia pun ada dalam asian games...

alfrina

gambar terbaru ler tuh...canggih tak?
kenarikelabu Post at 23-9-2010 21:02

kalah indon keje kat malaysia..
pakaian.. menten pakai bj tradisional depa hmy3:

thamrong

India is famously a country of contradictions where one can safely say that everything and its opposite is true. India has poor reputation for inefficiency, bad governance, shoddy work and corruption being demonstrated by international rejection of conditions at the Commonwealth Games village.

weta_studio

A Commonwealth shame?

Soutik Biswas | 15:34 UK time, Monday, 22 March 2010

I have just finished reading a 116-page report by a committee appointed by the Delhi high court on the "condition of workers" engaged in construction work on Commonwealth Games sites in the Indian capital. The October Games, on which the government is spending more than $2bn, is the biggest international sporting event India has ever hosted.

The report is shocking. It confirms Delhi's worst kept secret - how the shiny new stadia and other infrastructure hide the exploitative and unsafe conditions that 150,000 workers have to work under. My colleagues who have ventured out to report the story have come back with tales of workers cowering in fear and refusing to talk, and contractors who hire them refusing to meet for interviews.

Frightening details emerge from separate reports filed by human rights groups to the high court. Tariq Adeeb of the respected Human Rights Law Network tells me that independent investigations have found that more than 70 workers have been killed in accidents at the sites since work began. In reports submitted to the court, groups talk about 48 workers dying in accidents. The court-appointed committee found that at the Games village alone, four workers had died in accidents and one woman worker had died in a fire.

"Accidents are taking place causing injury resulting in death and disablement - both temporary and permanent," the report for the court says. The committee investigated 10 Games sites.

Most of the workers at the building and construction sites come from outside Delhi - mainly Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bihar and Orissa states.

"These workers, says the report, "are being made to work in harsh and unsafe conditions without basic amenities from the employers concerned."

Recruiting agents who hire migrant workers are required to obtain a licence from the authorities from the originating state. The report found that the majority of agents did not have licences. The workers are entitled to a "displacement allowance", but almost nobody has been paid it.

The report says the minimum daily wages are not being paid to all workers - the minimum daily wage for unskilled workers in Delhi is 151 rupees ($3.30), while the committee found workers on most Games sites are being paid on average 114 rupees ($2.50).

In many cases, the report says, the workers were not receiving overtime. And when they were getting it, they were being paid at the standard rate, not the statutory double time.
The exploitation of labour doesn't appear to end here - the report says the workers are never given a weekly day off with wages. They have no proof of employment as no wages slips are being issued.

A separate study by a rights group covering 702 workers at 15 key sites found that workers were not given leave even if they fell sick, and medical leave was granted only in 30% of cases. Most sites have little or no medical facilities.

Workers' safety - as I wrote here some months ago - is also apparently being widely flouted. Workers do not wear boots or gloves at many sites. "There were reports of accidents at almost every site, but the same could not be verified," the report says. Most of these accidents were not reported to the authorities.

The report has strongly criticised the living conditions of the workers. "Lack of overall hygiene, environmental sanitation and cleanliness was deplorable," the report said. Many of the workers "were living in rooms, often without doors, without protection during winter, without electricity and without toilets".

It found a bias against hiring women workers - there was only one crèche found at the Games village site - and that women were being paid less than men.

The court report says the agencies - government bodies, contractors, recruiting agents - involved in the construction refuse to take responsibility for such appalling work conditions and wage violations. Rights groups say the report is a damning indictment of the way government and private contractors treat workers and that it also confirms how they have made a mockery of India's labour and wage laws.

None of the Commonwealth Games officials, including the chairman of the organising committee, Suresh Kalmadi, took my calls when I tried to reach them for their reaction to the report. VK Gupta, a senior engineer of the CPWD, one of the government agencies involved in the construction work has said the violations are "isolated cases." Michael Hooper, chief executive of the London-based Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), was more forthright saying "there is no excuse for flouting the law".

"India has laws to protect the lives and safety of its workers. Obviously there is no excuse for any employer or agency to break these laws," he told the BBC.

"The contractor and hiring agencies at the Commonwealth Games should make sure the laws are adhered to. I fully back the recommendations of the court to have a monitoring group to be put in place to ensure violations dont happen."

When I asked him whether this was a big embarassment for the Games, Mr Hooper said: "This [kind of violation] is not unique to India. These violations, unfortunately, happen all over the word."

But what I find particularly galling is the silence of political parties on the state of workers. The local Hindu nationalist BJP has made an issue about the proposed serving of beef to guests at the Games. The Congress-led Delhi government is going to town with a planned "good manners" campaign, imploring the city's people to behave properly during the Games. The parties of the Left are silent. All this even as the government cleared nearly 700 million rupees in extra funds for the Games, taking its bloated budget to more than $2bn.

Athletes from 85 countries arrive in Delhi in October to participate in the 19th Games, which are supposed to showcase India's ability to host an international event. Human rights groups say it's a sham - and what was supposed to be a matter of national pride is fast beginning to look like a national shame.

weta_studio

shaykays

Sana byk korupsi so potetial nak menang medal payah la..sape byr lebih dpt la, so nnt mmg byk la kontrobesi nye,BIAS  lagik...





-teringin nak tengok cite rombongan cik kiah ke sukan komenwel versi india-

thamrong

I am not sanguine about India competing with China in the next five years. Bad basic infrastructure and rampart corruption even at the municipal level is no big plus. Singapore a small island state with no hinterland and strategic depth has plenty to teach the Indian. Now I am having second thought  about importing the Indian skilled and unskilled workers.

MengkuduMasam

on the other view...

maybe athelete ni amik kesempatan diatas kekurangan delhi... so buleh jimat cost tak payah anta peserta..

paling tidak depa tak cukup prepare utk defend title... daripada kalah.. balik tarik diri..

hayati_hassan

just nak share my experience dealing
with org INDIA nie
depa nie sgt demanding and yet very stingy
depa nie ingat semua kerja boleh jln kalu rasuah
bayangkan hutang sampai 1/2year xbayar
kerana nak save bank charges !

weta_studio

persiapan Guangzhou untuk sukan asia lebih bersedia dari komanwel ni

thamrong

India is bad in managing her  internal and foreign affairs. I told our esteem newpaper to stick your coverage to snake charmers, monkeys and poverty.

dewi_anastasia

Reply 270# weta_studio

nasib manusia tak sama............













bersyukur dengan apa yang telah Allah beri sepanjang hidup ini..............segala ujian hanyala sebagai penguat iman...diharap tak tergelincir....amin........

punchup

bg KL anjur mmg best pun..teringat plak zaman aku jadi volunteer kat Pusat Aquatik masa kita jd Host ...
harimau76 Post at 22-9-2010 12:36

    aku pun sama volunteer kat bhg finance ;) g mana2 pakai pas je.... semua game tgk

chaintea

siyesly tgk keadaan village itu aku ngeri
pehtu tgk bebudak wat keje..what!!! bukan ke menyalahi akta tuh
aduhai mcm2

mmg ada pengalaman x best ms bercuti di Delhi last 2 years..ms tu terpikir cmne depa nak handle sukan komanwel nnti? bila tgk berita skrg..haaa tu diaa..ramalan ku benar belaka..

thamrong

Shoddy infrastructures constructions, collapsed pedestrian bridge and collapsed roofs are considered, in my humble opinion, something the Indian learned from my  good neighbor in the hinterland..the biggest destructive technology export may be.