New Delhi, Sept 23 (PTI): With the build-up to the Commonwealth Games going from bad to worse, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting with Sports Minister MS Gill and Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy here today to discuss the troubled preparations for the October 3 to 14 event.
Singh will meet Gill and Reddy, who heads the Group of Ministers overseeing the Games' preparations, here this evening in the face of the mounting international criticism of the country's preparedness to hold the event, sources in the Prime Minister's Office said.
The meeting comes two days after international delegates lambasted the Games Village as "filthy and uninhabitable" and top teams such as Canada, Scotland and New Zealand delayed their departure to the Indian capital.
The Games' build-up has been nothing short of disaster which has only grown in proportion ever since allegations of corruption first came out.
