Sealy assures CoCom’s cooperation

The Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Co-ordination Commission (CoCom), Austin Sealy, on Monday assured CoCom’s cooperation to the Organising Committee (OC) Commonwealth Games and the Central and Delhi governments.

“We are all working towards the same goal – that of producing a successful Games next year,” Mr. Sealy said during the opening session of the CoCom meeting here.

OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi was confident that CoCom would find considerable progress in all functional areas. “I have always maintained that CoCom meetings are good opportunities to introspect and review what needed to be done to achieve set milestones and timelines,” Mr. Kalmadi said.

He explained on the hiring of more workforce, which had risen from 228 in May to 680 in December, for the Games. “We have total clarity in the management structure, with each functional area having separate heads.”

The OC has selected 200 others to be recruited next month and hopes to increase the workforce to 1600 during the Games time.

Mr. Kalmadi claimed that the finances were under control with the signing of some major sponsors.

The meetings will be held till Wednesday after which CoCom would present its report to the CGF President Michael Fennell.