What does this sort of news say about India?

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An member of the South African High Commission blows a vuvuzela during a tour for embassy officials at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi on September 25, 2010, ahead of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games.​

 

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Team members from Scotland arrive for the Commonwealth Games at the airport in New Delhi September 26, 2010.​

 

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Female Indian labourers sweep a road near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Commonwealth Games venue, in New Delhi on September 26, 2010. The chaos that has engulfed the New Delhi Commonwealth Games and seen many top athletes pull out due to security and health concerns has left India's own sports stars fuming.​

 

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Indian Army soldiers prepare iron structures as they reconstruct a collapsed foot overbridge outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Commonwealth Games venue, in New Delhi on September 26, 2010.​

 

[longbow]

Your picture shows a whole bunch of women squatting down and sweeping the road - why not give them bigger brooms that allow them to sweep standing up. Don't tell me the contractor does not have the $ to provide proper brooms.

It is very back breaking doing it this way.

Also they should scoop up the dirt. Rather than sweeping it into the drain or a corner.

Female Indian labourers sweep a road near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Commonwealth Games venue, in New Delhi on September 26, 2010. The chaos that has engulfed the New Delhi Commonwealth Games and seen many top athletes pull out due to security and health concerns has left India's own sports stars fuming.​

 

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center in blue turban, inspects the Commonwealth Games Sports Injury Recovery Center after its inauguration at the Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. (AP Photo)
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An Indian security man stands guard at the entrance of the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi on September 26, 2010.​

 

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Indian paramilitary commandos stand in a group for a security briefing at the Indira Gandhi International Stadium ahead of the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Indian organizers faced more embarrassment Sunday as their own boxer's bed collapsed as he sat on it after taking possession of his apartment at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village. The multi-sport games, held every four years, bring together competitors from across the former British empire. The games are scheduled from Oct. 3-14.​

 

[longbow]

The hardware part is obviously not ready and they had 7 years to do the work. But that was the easy part.

My worry now is the software - the hygiene (hopefully no Delhi Belly), the transportation and security.

But if India can learn from this fiasco - combat the chronic corruption (the worse thing is that money kena siphoned away but the work still shoddy!!) then that is a good point. I doubt if anyone of the big shots will get prosecuted and they will be having high tea in London enjoyed their loot.

Picture of the players at the airport showed a nice modern airport till I saw that ugly fire hydrant. Not only was it ugly and old looking, it looking hopeless should it be called upon to fight major fire.

If you go see the hydrants in front of commercial buildings they are usually located in a corner and squat and have huge connectors.

 

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A woman labourer works outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi September 26, 2010. The Games were supposed to enhance India's image of a rising power, but shoddy construction, filthy accommodation and security fears have underlined governance and accountability issues, hurting the runaway pride of Asia's third largest economy. Several top athletes, including world champion sprinter Usain Bolt, have pulled out, taking away some of the shine from the event held every four years for former British colonies.​

 

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Indian security personnel stand guard in front of the Sports Injury Centre at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi on September 26, 2010. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inagurated the centre September 26 ahead of the Commonwealth Games.​

 

[longbow]

Someone should tell them machine gun post does not instill confidence!! Military uniform is not good. Should have equipped them with police like uniforms.

Hopefully they do not park armoured personnel carriers at the entrances.

Also barbed wires are bad!!!

An Indian security man stands guard at the entrance of the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi on September 26, 2010.​

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

India the country that everyone gives so many chAnces. Indians the filthy buggers that never admit their mistakes. At least being a keling allows them a lower standard. If china was like this I am sure everyone including some of you hereeould be lambasting them to death. I bet in real life you let your keling frens or colleagues off. Easier compared to your Chinese ones correct?

 

[moolightaffairs]

India the country that everyone gives so many chAnces. Indians the filthy buggers that never admit their mistakes. At least being a keling allows them a lower standard. If china was like this I am sure everyone including some of you hereeould be lambasting them to death. I bet in real life you let your keling frens or colleagues off. Easier compared to your Chinese ones correct?

i think its international bias. China, our motherland is communist country. which make those democratic western countries pee in their pants, of course they wouldnt want China to look good. BUT!!! mamaland aka india is the biggest DEMOCRATIC country. so they would rather the dirty, corrupted, ineffective, poor, run-down, shabby, third world of the third world biggest democratic country looks good.

another thing is maybe Chinese already set a very high standard, so when Chinese cock up. people tend to point finger fast and furious. but mama aka indian cock up is a routine, fuck them also useless. so why waste time??? am i right???

 

[Char_Azn]

India the country that everyone gives so many chAnces. Indians the filthy buggers that never admit their mistakes. At least being a keling allows them a lower standard. If china was like this I am sure everyone including some of you hereeould be lambasting them to death. I bet in real life you let your keling frens or colleagues off. Easier compared to your Chinese ones correct?

Actually U need to give them some credit. They actually managed to build something after 8 yrs

Here's an incident from my own experience in India

My company have an office in the city of Nagpur and a Plant in Butiburi which is 1/2hr journey from Nagpur

Between Nagpur and Butiburi, there is a train crossing where a train crosses the road every 15min. You can imagine the traffic jams along that road.

On the way back to Nagpur one day I commented on the flyover that they were building over the train tracks. The Viaduct near Lau Pa Sat took us a few months to complete, the Indian flyover wasn't much larger or longer then that so I said looks close to completion and that it shouldn't take more then a few more months to complete. Should be ready the next time I visit

My driver replied that they took 6 years to get to that stage. Like that idiot I was, I asked why it took so freaking long to make something that simple. His reply:
This is India

Yeah, I felt like a total moron at that point. He went on further to explain that apparently, coz it took so freaking long to complete the flyover, the local state government refused to paid the contractor and the contractor refuse to continue to work coz they were not paid. On top of that, the Rail ministry suddenly came out and complain that they have no rights to build a flyover over their tracks.

Incredible India!!!!!

 

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Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi shows the sleeping quarters of an apartment in the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi on September 25, 2010, ahead of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games.​

Collapsing bed last straw for Indian boxer
September 26, 2010

Akhil Kumar

A collapsing bed proved the final insult for an Indian athlete.

After travelling from his training base in Patiala, 56kg class boxer Akhil Kumar entered to find his room in a filthy state - as so many have.

Exasperated at a four hour wait to get to a room in such disrepair, Akhil sought solace in sleep, but was in for the rudest of shocks.

"We reached (the Village) late in the afternoon to collect our accreditation cards. But when I sat down on my bed to take rest, it collapsed," Akhil told the Times of India newspaper.

"I checked the bed and part of it had no plywood on it. It was disappointing after enduring a long journey.

"The athletes are at least entitled to a decent place to rest. Even the toilets are not very clean. I have told our coach about this."

Kumar's complaint was far from isolated.

His teammate, the 81kg class boxer Dinesh Kumar, reported on the state of his room in detail, confirming the unsightly state many rooms were in even as Games president Mike Fennell made an inspection of the precinct.

"There were stains in some corners of the room. The bathroom was filthy. Some of the fittings weren't working. The bed was dirty," said Dinesh.

"After looking at the condition of the room, we went down to the auditorium to complain to officials.

"They then sent workers up with buckets and broomsticks to clean the rooms.

"This is so annoying I can't describe it.

"We were dying to stretch our backs and hit the bed but it was too dirty. So we were made to stand again for a few more hours before the clean-up."

 

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Sep 26, 2010
DELHI COMMONWEALTH GAMES FIASCO
Boxer's bed collapses

NEW DELHI - INDIAN media reports that a top boxer's bed collapsed just as he sat on it after taking possession of his apartment at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village.

Akhil Kumar, who won gold for India in the 54 kilogram division at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, says he is disappointed at the state of his apartment.

Akhil was quoted as saying by the Times of India that he reached the Olympic Bhavan (office) late in the afternoon to collect accreditation cards. 'But when I sat down on my bed to take rest, it collapsed.'

The village has come in for intense criticism from various participating nations and some contingents decided to stay at hotels rather than move in immediately on arrival in New Delhi.

HA HA HA....

 

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Indian traffic policemen writes a traffic ticket for a car that drove on a lane exclusively catering to athletes and the delegations during the Commonwealth Games near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Commonwealth Games venue, in New Delhi on September 27, 2010. Organisers of the Commonwealth Games scrambled to finish facilities and reassure athletes amid warnings much work still had to be done in New Delhi just a week before the opening ceremony. National teams arriving at the athletes' village were greeted by a massive clean-up operation as hundreds of extra staff tackled uncompleted apartments, dirty toilets and piles of builders' rubbish.​

 

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Malaysian team members pose for photographs at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010.

Malaysian team members in the recreational area at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010.​

 

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An Indian paramilitary officer urinates on the wall outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010.​