With the Commonwealth Games barely 25 months away, the government is pulling up its socks to ensure timely completion of hotels, stadia and Games village for the mega event.
Against a requirement of 30,000 hotel rooms, only about 11,000 hotel rooms in star category are available in the Capital to host the players and officials among others during the 2010 Games.
"It is already late and it looks next to impossible to construct so many hotels before the Games. Because it requires several clearances for a hotel to come up and there is no single window clearance system here," general secretary, Unit Hotel Forum, O P Mendiratta said.
However, the urban development ministry, the nodal ministry for facilitating Games-related infrastructure, is hopeful of meeting the target.
"It may look late but we are on the job and hopeful of meeting the target," UD Secretary M Ramachandra told PTI.
Considered to be the largest sporting event ever staged in India, Commonwealth Games involves participation of about 5000 athletes from 53 countries.
Giving details about the progress of Games related works he said, "DDA has so far auctioned 33 sites which is to generate about 6019 rooms. Plinth level work has started on 17
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