Cwg Workers

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  CWG scam: Rs 240cr demand notices issued to tax defaulters

  A recovery of about Rs 108 crore on account of service tax and workers welfare cess has been also made from them by the authorities.

• The secret tragedy of CWG

  While most of the attention is driven towards cleanliness of the Games' village, one group that seems to have been neglected is that of those workers and labourers who have worked for years in dismal conditions. Many workers have got injured while working on Games' related projects. But seldom has anyone talked about the missing safety gears w...

• 125 MCD workers to clean up 'filthy' Games' Village

  A day after Commonwealth Games Federation Chief Executive Mike Hooper termed the Athletes Village as "filthy and uninhabitable", the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has swung into action.When NDTV visited the Games' Village on Wednesday morning, we found 125 MCD workers waiting for security clearance to enter to clean up the villageAccording t...

• Workers building Commonwealth Games stadia forced to sleep on footpaths

  Bansi says he sleeps on the footpath, if it rains he and his fellow workers stand under flyover.They're part of a huge labour force that is now working overtime to ensure that the venues for the 2010 Delhi Games are finished in time. The state government collects 1% of the total bill from construction companies for labour welfare. Over Rs 389 crore...

• CWG alleged corruption: Finance Ministry checks

  The Finance Ministry today said that it too is verifying the documents to check financial irregularities in award of works related to the Commonwealth Games."We are only at the background ... whatever is in the public domain we are verifying ... just as other agencies are looking, just like ED and others, we are also verifying the documents, the pe...

• 42 workers paid with life for Commonwealth Games

  As scam after scam is unraveled before the Commonwealth Games, perhaps the biggest scandal of these Games is the human cost - the story of 42 labourers who died on the job working in pathetic conditions.And it's not just them, over 6 lakh labourers in the Capital are working in what are evidently callous and inhuman conditions. And even though he m...