Our standard of cleanliness may be different from theirs: Bhanot

Published>Tue, Sep 21 10 06:53 PM

New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) secretary-general Lalit Bhanot said Tuesday that the concerns about hygiene and cleanliness at the Games Village will be addressed and standards upgraded within 36 hours to the expectations of the visiting contingents.

Reacting to adverse reports regarding the 'filthy living conditions' at the Village, Bhanot said standards of cleanliness and hygiene differed from one person to the other and what one thought was clean may not appear that clean to others.

'We have told the Chefs de Mission that the level of hygiene and cleanliness at the Games Village will be upgraded within 36 hours. We are doing entire cleaning of the residential wing. In fact cleaning in 50 percent of the towers is already complete and the remaining will be done in 36 hours,' said Bhanot.

Bhanot admitted that the organising committee has received Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennell's letter to Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekar, the government's seniormost official who is overseeing the Games' preparations, in which the former expressed his concerns about the cleanliness and hygiene at the Village as have some visiting delegations, particularly the New Zealand chef de mission.

'This is not a matter of shame; all work will be done by tomorrow,' Bhanot told a questioner.

'Fennell wrote a letter raising some concerns and today cabinet secretary, sports secretary, Lt.Governor and principal secretary to the prime minister met and said that all support should be lent (by the Indian government) to organising committee,' he said.

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