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India to ensure adequate security for C'wealth games: Govt | India on Wednesday assured the representatives of the participating countries of the Common Wealth Games
2010 of providing adequate security during the games to be held here next next year.
The Home Ministry's international security liaison group has organised a two-day
conference for the participating countries of Commonwealth Games 2010 who are
attending the liaison conference. The conference will last till Thursday (Sep.24).
On Wednesday, the first day of the conference, Minister of State for Home Ajay
Maken informed media that he has told the participants that security would be
up to the mark and Commonwealth games scheduled to be held in the city in 2010
would be completely safe. "I have also personally ensured them and told that there
will be no dearth of resources or manpower for security. We'll be using the best
available technologies available globally; we'll be using the best brains available
with us for security purposes. And there'll be no let up in security in any way.
Well as far as the security aspect is concerned we are fully geared up and fully
satisfied," said Maken. Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of the Organising Committee,
said that representatives would be taken on venue visit on Thursday so that they
return to their countries with confidence. He said that India is getting a lot
of communication and security equipment into the system. "They are going to all
the venues and we are giving them venue briefs; how security is there on the venues,
so they go back all confident," said Kalmadi. About 30 Embassy chiefs or their
representatives were briefed about the security measures for next year's Commonwealth
Games earlier in September. Games organisers have said security will be at par
with last year's Beijing Olympics when they stage the Games from Oct. 3-14 next
year. However, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennell
last week slammed the organising committee over the slow pace of work for the
games, scheduled from Oct. 3-14 next year. Safety concerns have escalated in South
Asia since militant attacks in Mumbai last November killed 166 people and gunmen
ambushed the Sri Lanka cricket team bus in Pakistan in March. Further concerns
flared up last month when England pulled out of the world badminton championships
in Hyderabad. Home Minister P.Chidambaram personally attended the final day of
the championships in Hyderabad as any ordinary viewer and showed that India was
capable of providing security for any major sports event. |
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