Delhi Games tickets delayed by 'glitch'

Hundreds of people queuing for Commonwealth Games tickets in New Delhi were turned away from outlets because the tickets hadn't arrived.

Games tickets were meant to be available at outlets in the Games host city from 9am local time on Wednesday.

But Games organisers blamed a technical glitch for a 10-hour delay in the arrival of tickets at about 30 outlets, Indian media reported Thursday.

Tickets finally arrived at outlets from 7pm local time, the Times of India reported.

Online tickets for the October 3-14 Games in the Indian capital have been available since June 4.

But collection of the tickets, and non-online purchase of tickets, was scheduled from Wednesday.

Games organisers blamed "system maintenance" for the ticket delay, the Times of India reported.

"The tickets were made available as soon as the system was updated, there is no problem," the organising committee secretary general Lalit Bhanot told the newspaper.

One outlet, the Central Bank of India, said more than 100 people turned up at a branch.

"We kept sending people back through the day ... we had to inform them that tickets were not available," the bank's assistant general manager BS Harilal told the newspaper.