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New Delhi: Delhi government recently announced to have signed a definitive agreement with the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee. As a result of the pact, the latter is allowed to only make use of the electric poles on the Public Works Department & aposs roads around the sports venue for placing their advertisement billboards. |
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New Delhi: New Delhi's Commonwealth Games security plans have been stolen, plunging the event into further disarray. Computers containing sensitive security information were stolen from the office of Delhi Police's Joint-Commissioner. The theft is all the more thwarting because the police compound housing the commissioner's office rarely has fewer than 500 officers in it. |
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New Delhi: The recent Lahore terror attack has raised doubts on sporting activities in the sub-continent with Ric Charlesworth claiming that next year's Commonwealth Games and hockey World Cup in New Delhi could be jeopardised. |
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New Delhi: To prevent an outbreak of vector-borne diseases during Commonwealth Games 2010, Municipal Corporation of Delhi is working on a masterplan. It will involve coordination with various departments to identify construction areas from where the disease could spread.
With the number of dengue and malaria cases rising last year, MCD has started working towards ensuring prevention and control of vector and water-borne diseases during the Games. The fact that the Games will be held during the peak disease transmission period in October has been worrying officials. A large number of malaria cases were reported during Asian Games in 1982 also.
The MCD also needs to look into the fact that the Games village is located on the riverbed which is prone to mosquito breeding. Said N K Yadav, MCD health officer: "With a lot of construction work taking place before the Games, there is bound to be an influx of migrant workers in the city. We have to have proper screening of these workers to ensure that they do not have any viral or bacterial disease. We will coordinate with the engineering department for this. We will also have to see how we we can spray medicine in and around Yamuna to prevent mosquito breeding.''
With an outbreak of meningitis having been reported at the Commonwealth Games Village site last year, proper health check-up of workers at various sites becomes important.
Said an MCD official: "Dengue fever is becoming a public health challenge for health authorities. To compound matters, a number of chikangunya cases are being reported since 2007.''
Last year, 203 malaria cases and 1,312 cases of dengue were reported as against 137 of malaria and 548 of dengue in 2007.
Some of the steps that MCD has proposed to take include establishment of dengue corners in hospitals, buffer stock of kits to be maintained at each hospital, establishing sentinel sites for surveillance, constant checks of hotels, guesthouses by the malaria circle, establishment of health and sanitation committees at ward level and increasing the strength of field staff. The masterplan is expected to be ready by May.
Said an MCD official: "Efforts will be made to get chlorinators installed at various tubewells of DJB and water sampling will be done at restaurants, hotels and fast food outlets, besides ensuring supply of safe quality water in swimming pools and jacuzzis. We will also take food hygiene measures.''
"We plan to give a rating to each eatery according to the facilities available there,'' said Yadav. "The owner of the eatery will have to display the rating through a logo outside the building during the Games. Along with this, all unlicensed health trade activities will be stopped.'' MCD wants that an apex coordination committee be established to ensure prevention of diseases during Games.
Special attention will be also given to stop open defecation as it leads to spread of water-borne diseases. Such sites will be identified and mobile toilets provided there.
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New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Village in Delhi is unlikely to be completed on time because of alleged delays in payment by the developer, Emaar MGF Land Ltd. Around 8,500 athletes and delegates are expected to descend on the city in October 2010 for a sporting extravaganza. But work at the village where they will be put up has fallen behind schedule, as at least half the workers employed at the site have walked away because they haven’t been paid wages by a cash-strapped civil contractor. |
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