PM goes tough on ministries for no action on Shunglu report

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has fired a missile at all ministries concerned with the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to act within two weeks on the irregularities pinpointed by a high - powered committee headed by retired Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) V K Shunglu.

Sources in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said Dr Manmohan Singh is angry over no action taken by the ministry even two months after the Home Ministry had circulated the Shunglu Committee's 534-page report for action.

Asking the concerned ministries to furnish in two weeks answers to the issues raised in the Shunglu report, the Prime Minister has asked them to keep him informed of differences, if any.

The Sports Ministry and the Urban Development Ministry, whose ministers were shunted out after the Games as also Delhi''s Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Muncipal Corporation of Delhi, the New Delhi Municipal Committee and CWG organising committee''s arrested chairman Suresh Kalmadi had come under severe criticism in the Shunglu report.

The report blasts Kalmadi for running the organising committee like a club, misusing powers and neutralising dissent by removing top officials who objected.

Chief Minister Dikshit rejected early this week findings of the Shunglu committee as "self contradictory" and blasted it for lack of understanding on her government's role in conduct of the CWG. Her stand is that the Delhi Government had only supervised the CWG - related works while the execution was done mostly by the BJP led municipal corporation or by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) which does not come under the state government.