Delhi is hosting the commonwealth games 2010 and its almost final to the date. But have the preparations been up to date. Couple of days back I went through a poll in a leading daily asking the readers whether India can successfully host the event, and majority said no (the exact percentage saying no was somewhere near 60%). Are they pessimists or they are not patriotic or they don't want India to host the event??? I guess nothing among them is true.
Lets assume India can successfully host the event. What will happen after that???
Agreed that this will be a great opportunity for the tourism industry to flourish and expose the country to many new people. But the aftermaths are much more worse than the advantages. Lets get to them one by one.
A lot of money is spent on infrastructure. Its good that lots of underpasses, flyovers and metro routes are constructed for smooth transportation. But along with them as many as 7 new Air Traffic Control towers are proposed. Also a lot of companies are sensing an opportunity and have planned to raise world class hotels to project the brand India in front of GUESTS. But what will happen after the games. Who will use these world class facilities???
The current occupancy levels in the hotels is much below what is seen in many tourist countries of the world and with more hotels coming up, it will plummet. Also the maintenance cost incurred afterwards will be much higher than the revenue they will earn.
These events are attracting a lot of energy. Delhi is already short of power and water and these events demand hell lot of both of these precious gems. Are the people of Delhi ready to sacrifice because definitely there will be shortage, if not now then after the event.
Security of the guests is an issue. I guess this is the biggest one. With increasing terrorist attacks in the country, this is a great opportunity for the terrorists to give the country a huge blow. If such a thing happens, this will have a great impact on the relationships with other nations.
In the corner of my mind, there was this cultural issue related with the habit of foreigners. They drink a lot and during the events we will clearly see many of them drinking on roads in public. What impact that will have on our children???
There may be many more such pathetic affects which have been buried under the ecstasy of holding the event and which have been overlooked but the aftermaths have to be faced by us....
So are we READY........
here he comes again.....bashing towards the Indian system.....i don't understand what's his problem.....all this is happening for good....
ReplyDeletey is there a problem in better infrastructure and hotels...tho i complete agree on the electricity and water front but due to these reasons v can't let such an important event just pass away from our hands..its a gr8 opportunity for us....n v hav rightly grabbed it with both hands
"Lets assume India can successfully host the event. What will happen after that???" wat do u mean by dat...
ReplyDeletev will surely successfully handle everything.....wat u r pointing out are trivial issues...which will remain with every country...and hence r not worth mentioning...