[Reader-list] Commonwealth Games Village

[Jeebesh]

The Commonwealth Village houses were being sold at 15,000 Rs per sq  
ft. Now apparently there is no buyers. So bailout. best jeebesh

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To,

Sri Tejendra Khanna
Hon'ble Lt Governor
DELHI

Respected Sir,

Greetings from Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan.

Recent media reports indicates that DDA is seeking ways and means to  
bail out the MGF-EMAAR with respect to the ill planned Games Village  
project in the river bed.

Sir, in this context allow us to bring the following to your kind  
notice:

a)      Under the PPP model the state (in turn the tax payer) should  
not be investing any resources under any bail out arrangement or the  
like. It is unbelievable that a global player like the EMAAR should  
not be having its own resources to complete a 'small sized' (in view  
of global operations of EMAAR) project like the one under  
consideration. We may not succumb to EMAAR to work up a bail out  
package on an emotional issue like the future of Games, etc.
b)      Allow us to remind that during the hearing in the Yamuna Case  
at the High Court of Delhi, the Hon'ble Solicitor General defending  
the construction was at pains to remind the court about the virtues of  
the PPP model under which the state was not having to spend any money  
towards the construction.
c)      It is also a well known fact that the DLF is having problem in  
completing the International Convention complex in Dwarka which it had  
won in a bid.

In the light of the above facts and since the client in both the cases  
is the same, namely the DDA, we suggest, if we may that let the Games  
Village be shifted to Dwarka and let DLF and EMAAR jointly complete a  
complex which could be used as a Games Village for the duration of the  
Games and then have a perfectly valid legacy value as an International  
Convention Complex later on.

The above as suggested is in our view, the most logical planning,  
which in its wisdom the DDA should have done in the first place. Allow  
us to mention that this option we had suggested long back too.

By doing so, while the river bed would be saved from devastation it is  
witnessing at the moment, the nation would get redeemed in the eyes of  
the world since we had promised at Jamaica (when the Games were  
awarded to IOA for hosting in Delhi) that the "Games Village site is  
proximate to the Airport". It would also take away the anxiety of the  
Games organisers of safe and quick transport of the participants from  
the airport to the village and vice versa.

The suggestion as above if implemented, in our view would be win-win  
from all angles and hence we hope would deserve your all attention.

With warm regards,

Manoj Misra
Convenor




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