Was going through Medals Tally of CWG 2010, and was happy that we are maintaining 2nd Position till second Last Day of Event, although England is inching closer but still 3rd Position in Medal Tally is really great....
It feels Good, Atleast we would be able to Boast about this in Future....and on the same time we clearly Established our No.1 Position in Test Rankings (Cricket).
Daily Newspapers are painting the Glory of Nation and again junta is feeling India Shining.....India is definetely Shining no doubt on it, but the Price which we are paying for that is Overly Quoted.
Just Imagine, No Business sense in Organizing CWG 2010, as this won't generate the revenue in proportion to the Expenditure, but this we did only for the Sake of Nation's Pride and to strenghten our Nomination for Holding the Olympics in Future,...but the Negative Publicity and Scam behind the event really hurts the sentiments.
Few Days Back I was having a conversation with my Elder Bro, and chirping happily about the Success in CWG, and he pointed out few things which really forced me to look at the other side of the wall.
Gaining second position in Medals Tally, in the event where no top ranked Athelete was present, even from the countries Participating....all top sportperson pulled out their candidature due to poor management and organization, and then too we are second (including Home Advantage)
Think about this that we gained only one Gold Medal in Lawn Tennis, where all of Our Players were Top Seeded, including Saniya, Leander Paes, Mahesh, Somdev...and look in the ATP Ranking, they are far behind in International Circuit....
Where was Andy Murray of England???(example quoted by my Bro) and other Top Seeded players from different Nations...
and in absence of that too we missed out the Gold Basket....(only Somdev clinched the yellow metal)
Recently came through an Incident, that few Youngsters forced Suresh Kalmadi to move out of an Restaurant as they were feeling ashamed by spending the evening with Mr. Kalmadi, but did we ever thought that how come a Person devoted to serve the Nation(ex- Pilot in Indian Air Force) became so Corrupt.
The answer is in System, the guys who was having problem with Mr. Kalmadi, must on numerous occassion bribed the Traffic Inspector or Govt. Clerk for minor issues....never thought that we are developing the habbit which would pain us at later stage. So why to create such a fuss at this stage???
I can understand that this reaction was because now the matter was linked with Nation's Pride, and we can tolerate anything but not the matters related to Country Pride.
I am quite Happy and would like to Congratulate all the Atheletes who did wonders for our Nation and Respect their Efforts, but the situation is really worrysome.
Let us retrospect before Celebrations start and realize the concept of Butterfly Effect in developing the practices in System.
I'll start from my side, I know I am part of all this too, and been on wrong side on numerous occassions, and may be doing the same in future too, but still giving a try is must.
whilst i don't say corruption is fine but look at china....ppl say there's corruption there as well but atleast they deliver world class things n more importantly on time.....i dont think money is a prob as newspaper quote we having spent 70k crs on this !!!
ReplyDeleteanother issue which i feel relevant is we as indians are bad at planning....thoda chalta hai attitude is part of our life now....2003 was when we won d bid n till 2010 we were strugglin for completion...
lastly abt sportsmen winnin w/o lack of participation from d best....well ppl like murray probably wud b playin at ATP tournaments over playin for country i guess....lets not take any credit away from them...atleast w/o lack of support from most quarters, they have brought some smile on our faces.....
hope tht for next olympics we have few more winners !!!
Gud points, but few things need to be taken into account,
ReplyDelete1) The political Structure of China force them to grow, the government has complete responsibility and decision making power, But in India we are democratic Governance, where imposing something is out of question, therefore Corruption is bigger problem for us than for chinese.
2) As far as Planning is concerned, as per history best Planners and Executors are Defence personnel because of their to do attitude, and disciplined lifestyle; siting the same reason Mr. Kalmadi was incharge of the Organizing Commitee, but still things were in such a bad shape...chalta hain attitude agar wahaan par aayaa toh kyun aayaa is a big question, because every one had enough for their apetite and no one was eager to work and earn.
3) Andy Murray was only an example...various top level atheletes and swimmers who were not involved in any other event, and was available for CWG, pulled out at last moment...what were the reasons for that is an open fact and need not to be repeated once again.
I really hope that our players repeat the wonders at Olympics too...and take the motivation out of this glory.
But the money wasted down the drain could have been used in developing the talent pool, and ensuring more medals at Olympics...
The run up to the games was marked with hullabaloo, the opening ceremony was spectacular, the games went on smoothly with team India dazzling the world and the closing ceremony too concluded with no errors(except for Kalmadi's speech...Man,he has a thing for goof ups!)
ReplyDeleteAll said and done, now it's time for the audits. All the people involved in the setting up of the games would come under the scanner but how would they be dealt with is a question.
As always, lessons would be learned and we would be better prepared for any such mega event in the future.
I think one good thing that has happened is that Delhi now has improved infrastructure and as a city has spruced up. Hope that it is maintained. No doubts we have had it at extra costs(courtesy: corruption)but we do have something to show off to the world now.But the real winners- Indian athletes.Nyday!