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CVC to probe 22 more Games projects

New Delhi: Widening its probe, the Central Vigilance Commission is looking into at least 22 more Commonwealth Games-related construction and procurement works carried out by different government agencies here for alleged financial irregularities.

Besides, the CVC has found alleged misuse of official position by Raj Kumar Sacheti, Joint Director-General of Commonwealth Games, who is considered a close aide of Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi.

According to information received in response to an RTI application, out of 22 projects, six were carried out by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, four by the Delhi Development Authority, three by the Organising Committee and two each by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the CPWD and the Government of Delhi.

One work each relating to the Department of Commerce, the India Meteorological Department and the New Delhi Municipal Council is also being probed, the reply said. An analysis by the Chief Technical Examination Wing of the CVC earlier found alleged financial and administrative irregularities in 16 construction and procurement projects. Six of them were done by the PWD, three by the MCD, two each by the CPWD, the DDA, the NDMC and one by the RITES, a Government of India Enterprise.

The expansion of the probe came even as the CVC directed all agencies concerned to submit their reports by month-end. — PTI

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