New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games village opens for athletes on Thursday and greeting them will be paan-stained walls and waterlogged basements, which prove that the organisers have failed to deliver yet another promise. The crucial question however remains, can the Delhi government save the situation? The pictures that have come from the so-called world class Commonwealth Games village have shocked the entire country, heralding shame for the nation. The basement of Tower 25 in the CWG village is still flooded, sparking fear of the dreaded dengue fever. Towers 27 and 28 are in no better condition. Rubbish is seen lying outside and paan stains on the staircase. It is simply difficult to believe that the athletes are scheduled to check in later on Thursday in this same place. This happens to be the picture of the Games village, a day after filthy conditions at the village shamed the nation with the Games organisers coming under fire for virtually defending filthy flats and dogs on athletes beds. Commonwealth Games federation chief Mike Fennel is scheduled to arrive in Delhi on Thursday. In fact his letter to the Cabinet Secretary exposed the shocking all is well line of Delhi's organisers. Most of the foreign delegations have now pushed back their arrival dates. The organising committee has mounted operation cleanup on a war footing. 1500 workers have been enlisted to make the village livable. But while it is a race against time the blame game continues. VK MAlhotra, Sr VP, IOA said, “It is the responsibility of the DDA, the ministry and the Sports Ministry. They delayed it. We got the games in 2003, but work started only in 2008, this was totally wrong." The Indian weightlifting team is expected to arrive later on Thursday but will the village be clean enough for them to feel at home in their home turf. Meanwhile, Congress MP and Former Union Sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said the top bosses of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell and Mike Hooper have no right to criticise the Games. He said, "Fennel and Hooper, the two 'Mikes' that I refer to them as were associated with Kalmadi (Suresh) and till recent they were claiming that everything would be spectacular. So, now what right do they have that at the last moment, to save their own faces they put the blame on someone else. I am not ready to believe that Mike Fennel or Mike Hooper has any right to criticise us this way.”

New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games village opens for athletes on Thursday and greeting them will be paan-stained walls and waterlogged basements, which prove that the organisers have failed to deliver yet another promise.

The crucial question however remains, can the Delhi government save the situation?

The pictures that have come from the so-called world class Commonwealth Games village have shocked the entire country, heralding shame for the nation. The basement of Tower 25 in the CWG village is still flooded, sparking fear of the dreaded dengue fever.

Towers 27 and 28 are in no better condition. Rubbish is seen lying outside and paan stains on the staircase.

It is simply difficult to believe that the athletes are scheduled to check in later on Thursday in this same place. This happens to be the picture of the Games village, a day after filthy conditions at the village shamed the nation with the Games organisers coming under fire for virtually defending filthy flats and dogs on athletes beds.

Commonwealth Games federation chief Mike Fennel is scheduled to arrive in Delhi on Thursday. In fact his letter to the Cabinet Secretary exposed the shocking all is well line of Delhi's organisers.

Most of the foreign delegations have now pushed back their arrival dates. The organising committee has mounted operation cleanup on a war footing. 1500 workers have been enlisted to make the village livable. But while it is a race against time the blame game continues.

VK MAlhotra, Sr VP, IOA said, “It is the responsibility of the DDA, the ministry and the Sports Ministry. They delayed it. We got the games in 2003, but work started only in 2008, this was totally wrong."

The Indian weightlifting team is expected to arrive later on Thursday but will the village be clean enough for them to feel at home in their home turf.

Meanwhile, Congress MP and Former Union Sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said the top bosses of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell and Mike Hooper have no right to criticise the Games.

He said, "Fennel and Hooper, the two 'Mikes' that I refer to them as were associated with Kalmadi (Suresh) and till recent they were claiming that everything would be spectacular. So, now what right do they have that at the last moment, to save their own faces they put the blame on someone else. I am not ready to believe that Mike Fennel or Mike Hooper has any right to criticise us this way.”