“Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto (Live, Rise, Ascend, Win)”
Commonwealth games are renowned as the second largest sports event after Olympics. It is a multi sport event which is held once every 4 years. The first commonwealth games were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the year 1930. At present, there are 53 commonwealth nations with 71 teams participating in this grand international sport event.
This year, New Delhi, the capital of India has got the opportunity to host commonwealth games 2010. It is undoubtedly a great honour on our part to get chance of hosting this prestigious event in India for the first time. To prove itself as an excellent sports host, Delhi is making all the arrangements for this exclusive sport event of this year which is going to be held from 3rd Oct to 14th October 2010. Five new stadiums and a Games Village have been constructed for the commonwealth games 2010. The new stadiums are the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium for weightlifting, Sire Fort for badminton & squash, India Gandhi Sports Complex for wrestling and Yamuna Complex for table tennis. As the main venue of the commonwealth games, a panoramic site near River Yamuna in Delhi has been selected known as the Games Village. This village is extended in a vast area of 118 acres and created at a cost of USD 40 million. All the athletes and officials from different countries will stay at Games Village in Delhi with excellent facilities. All the preparations are in full swing and everyone is waiting eagerly for the curtain to rise up. The XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi’s theme song, Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto (Live, Rise, Ascend, Win), by Music Maestro or “Mozart of Madras” A R Rehman is already released and enjoyed by masses.
Though, the entire nation is beaming with joy and proud for hosting commonwealth games in Delhi, but everything has a positive and negative 
aspect lying with it. This is also true with commonwealth games. Few believe that India is a developing country and 40% of our population is struggling hard for earning bread and butter. In this critical situation when our government should think of developing human resources and to fight poverty, it is too busy in the preparation for commonwealth games. Millions of rupees have been already spend in providing an entire makeover of Delhi to host this sport event lavishly. Thus, for a developing country like India, it is not in the welfare of its citizens to conduct these international sport ventures. It is still surrounded with controversies, construction work still pending, mis-management of CWG in shocking manner, Games Village haunted by stray dogs, everything has become expensive for CWG 2010 (seems Delhilites are getting over excited with CWG preparation) and other issues related to bribery……..and so on.
Now let’s look at few positive aspects about this grand event. As CWG is an internationally acclaimed largest sport event, It will help India earn foreign income. There will rise in economy, more tourism and exposure to other cultures. The guests from all parts of the world will be here to enjoy the event and experience warm Indian hospitality.
This will help India to build a strong and friendly network all across the world. Before we know De Day will be here with full pomp and show!! There are many watching with baited breath what is going to happen, and how is it going to happen? Well 2 more days to go………….
