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India set to hold mega prostitution extravaganza thru 13th Commonwealth Games

 

From Christina Palmer and Ajay Mehta

 

New Delhi—The host cities of India for the upcoming 13th Commonwealth Games

are all set to hold mega prostitution extravaganza during the games,

scheduled to be starting from October 3rd, 2010 and the “escort” companies

and pimps have got an unofficial nod of the Indian government in this

regard, reveal the findings of The Daily Mail’s investigations.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that the organized escort agencies, both

big and small scale, from Mumbai, Pune, Goa and Bangalore, hotbeds for

A-list prostitutes, are already at the drawing board, listing out the

probables that will be sent to service the over one hundred thousand

visitors to the 2010 Commonwealth games.

These investigations further reveal that While precise numbers cannot be

ascertained, the shortfall in the number of women available in New Delhi is

approximately 50 per cent, of which 25 per cent will be met by the cities

named above. The other 25 per cent will be sourced from Punjab and Haryana,

Himachal Pradesh and the North East. The 10, 00,000, figure includes

sportspersons, officials and visitors to the games.

The Daily Mail’s investigations into the matter further disclose that the

Indian organizers of the Games and the trainers of the participating Indian

athletes, both are falling much short of what is required from them.

The Daily Mail’s findings reveal that there had been a great controversy

between the Indian organizers of the even and the officials of the

Commonwealth Games Federation coordination committee regarding the

preparations of the venues to hold the mega sports event in the befitting

manners. According to these investigation the opposition party in the Indian

parliament is also not satisfied with the state of the affairs with regards

to the preparations of the event by the Indian organizers. The Bharatiya

Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday charged the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)

and the Delhi government with " misleading " the people of the country about

the preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the national capital.

Addressing a press conference, here the other day, BJP general secretary

Vijay Goel said: " It is sad that over the past few days, the Indian Olympic

Association has been trying to create a false impression that visiting

Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell was satisfied with

the preparations for the games. "

He also claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's statements that

Fennell was satisfied with the preparations are " false " .

Goel said Fennell later said that more than the construction of the

stadiums, he was upset with the lack of coordination and work on operational

issues as well as security during the games.

Goel, during whose term as sports minister in the then National Democratic

Alliance (NDA) government, the Commonwealth Games were allotted to Delhi,

said: " Now it is high time we stop covering up and work out the logistics to

ensure the success of the games in a transparent manner. " On the other side,

taking the first step towards brokering peace between the 2010 Organising

Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation, Sports

Minister MS Gill on Tuesday met OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi to discuss the

vexed issues that have hit the capital's preparation for the event.

Kalmadi came to Gill's residence yesterday morning where the Sports Minister

took stock of the progress of preparations and discussed the contentious

issues that have the OC and the CGF at loggerheads.

" I met Mr Kalmadi today and had a long discussion on all the matters. I will

be talking to (CGF Chief) Mr Mike Fennell on telephone and will have a

meeting with him, (CGF CEO Mike) Hooper and Mr Kalmadi in London on October

28, " Gill said after the meeting.

" I am confident that all issues will be resolved and everyone will work in

unison to ensure a very good Commonwealth Games in Delhi next year, " the

minister added.

The OC and the CGF seemed to have reached a deadlock over mainly two issues

-- the necessity of a Technical Review Panel and Hooper's stay in Delhi.

Fennell, soon after the CGF general assembly earlier this month, made it

clear that the organisers needed to pull up their socks and fast-track their

preparations if the capital is to deliver on its commitment of putting on

the best Commonwealth Games ever.

Fennell said the CGF had decided to set up a Technical Review Panel to

monitor the progress, a suggestion that did not go down well with the OC

with Kalmadi outrightly rejecting the idea.

Hooper's presence remains another bone of contention with Kalmadi describing

the CGF top official as an " impediment " to the capital's preparation and

seeking his removal.

The Daily Mail’s Investigations further reveal that apart from not being

convincingly able to prepare the venues for the event within the given

timeframe on part of the organizers, the coaches and trainers of the Indian

contingent for the 13th edition of the Games are also not much satisfied

with the preparation of the athletes to achieve some remarkable success

during the event. This is what has forced the Indian officials to divert the

attention of the visiting athletes, officials and spectators from the main

event to the world of glamour and sex with lot of seductive tactics by

escort agencies and their professional babes.

Raj, an escort agent who works with Indian Escort Girls from Mumbai, when

contacted by The Daily Mail’s investigation team, said foreigners were their

target audience and not Indian athletes. " We can actuate 2000 to 5000

escorts for the event in a week, but there will be a shortfall, which will

have to be met by other cities. Americans and Europeans pay well and we

expect a lot of business from them. "

Ellen (name changed due to security and commercial reasons), an escort from

Goa, while talking to The Daily Mail said, " Yes, it's a big event and makes

great business sense for us. Our agents will make sure there will be enough

of us to meet the demand. "

Neha Arora, who runs Escort International in New Delhi, upon contacting,

said, " Our agency will concentrate on three things.

First, increasing the number of national and international call girls in our

agency to meet the customers'

requirements. Second, making the girls look fit and hot so that they can

work for extra hours and finally, increase our reach across the country. Our

main focus during the games will be reaching out to foreigners as they pay

well. "

She said there were thousands of agencies operating throughout India and the

only way to stand out is to keep up with requirements. " We are planning to

launch a new website next year with pictures of hot and sexy models,

airhostess and actresses, " explained Ms. Arora

Tina Jaiswal who owns the No 1 Delhi Escort agency, when contacted by The

Daily Mail’s team, said, " We hope to make good money during the games. We

will simply follow the demand and supply principle of economics. We will

double our rates a month before the games begin and increase our workforce.

We have around 50 to 60 girls across India. "

Khairati Lal from Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha, an NGO that works for the GB

Road red light area in Delhi, giving her comments to The Daily Mail said,

" We will not remain silent if any such developments occur in the city. We

will protest via different mediums and

programmes. "

Uday Sahay, Additional Director General (communications) Commonwealth Games,

upon contacting, said, There are so many things which need to be discussed

and this [prostitution] is one of them. We are in the process of discussing

these things and hopefully a committee will be formed to tackle this soon.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the flow of money through the

sex extravaganza is likely to be much higher than what the government of

India would be spending on overall expenditures to hold the event. It is

learnt that while the Central or Union Government of India has allocated

Indian Rupee 3,472 mn for the games, the escort agencies have fixed the

rates as Rs 23,000 Per hour to charge the foreign “Clients,” which

ultimately concludes to the tunes of millions of rupees more than what the

government of India would be spending on the holding of the event as

according to statistics around 10,000 athletes and officials from 71

Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs) will participate in the 12-days of

sporting competition.

Overall 17 sports will be featured in CWG 2010, which will be held at six

venue clusters, and five stand alone venues.

Queen Elizabeth II will launch the baton relay for CWG 2010 on Oct 29, 2009

in the presence of President Pratibha Patil from Buckingham Palace, London.

After touring the 71 other CWG nations the baton will enter India from the

Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar on June 25, 2010. The baton will travel

around 1,70,000 km in all the Commonwealth Games nations.

The baton will travel in the country for 100 days covering a distance of

20,000 km. It will enter Delhi on 1 October, 2010.

Last month, Shiela Dikshit accepted that her government's Yamuna Action Plan

has failed and it will not be able to clean the river before the

Commonwealth Games.

Common Games federation chief Michael Fenell had pulled up the Organising

Committee for the slow-paced work and even fixed an appointment with PM to

apprise him of the delay in the preparation of CWG. This month, however, he

said the " overall the preparations are under control " .

The Daily Mail’s Investigations also indicate that there is also a very big

threat of millions of stray dogs, biting the participating athletes or the

foreign visitors during the event at New Delhi. According to these

investigations,

Thirty people, eight months, the latest equipment and a lot of patience.

That was what an international NGO took to count the number of stray dogs on

Delhi's streets ahead of upcoming Commonwealth Games. The figure is

astounding: more than 2.6 lakh dogs.

But the counting process is equally fascinating. " It was a daunting task

that took us almost eight months. We cannot exactly count each dog but as

they are territorial animals it became easy. We just had to identify the

zones, " said Karthik Satyanarayan, co-founder of Wildlife SOS, the NGO that

undertook the first survey of stray dogs in the city.

The survey, which started in January, divided the city into 14 zones

according to municipal jurisdictions. " A team of 30 people were selected and

trained to count dogs. They were also given six vehicles with latest

equipment, " said Satyanarayan.

The NGO used Global Positing System to identify low and high population

density areas. The people involved in the survey said technology played an

important role to identify roads and then to track the dogs.

" Generally, dogs don't move out of their territory. If a dog is spotted at

one locality at Mayur Vihar, it won't walk over to the next road. So we were

sure the same animal was not being counted twice. It is also easy to

identify the sterilized dogs from the non-sterilized ones. Sterilized

animals have slight cuts in their ears, " said Satyanarayan.

After counting, the data was tallied with people's reaction. " The resident

survey threw up some interesting facts. Like about 66 per cent people feed

stray dogs; only 50 per cent respondents were aware of the problem and only

20 per cent feared the animals, " he said.

1.34 lakh male dogs

1.28 lakh female dogs

70 percent sterilization target before Commonwealth Games

Rs 445 cost of sterilization of one dog

Rs 3.5 crore sum spent in last 3 yrs

77,586 number of dogs sterilized in 3 yrs