A Parliamentary panel’s sub group examining “irregularities” in Commonwealth Games 2010 on Tuesday recommended calling Cabinet Secretary K Sinha and PMO officials from Prime Minister’s Office for field surveys of assets created during the event.
“Officials from six other Ministeries — MHA, Finance, Sports, Urban Development, Health, Social Justice and Empowerment — will be called besides the present Cabinet Secretary as well as officials from the present PMO,” sources said.
The issues were deliberated at the first meeting of a five-member sub-committee of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee. While the PAC is headed by Congress leader K V Thomas, Shantaram Naik, Congress MP from Rajya Sabha is the convenor of the sub-committee, which has to finalise report on irregularities in the 19th Commonwealth Games.
The irregularities that were mentioned in a CAG report tabled in Parliament in 2011, had kicked up a huge controversy and the CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, a Congress MP, was put behind bars during the UPA II government.
The panel’s sub-Committee was constituted on September 4 with S S Ahluwalia, Nishikant Dubey and Vijay Goel (BJP) and Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD) as members. The PAC, which was earlier headed BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi had given a draft report.