COMMONWEALTH GAMES PUNE

BEING A PUNERI THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES NOT ONLY INTEREST ME BUT I WILL TRY AND KEEP ALL OF YOU UPDATED ON THE LATEST HAPPENINGS..
LETS START WITH THE PREPERATION THAT PCMC HAS PUT IN FOR THE CWYG
TO BEGIN WITH THE PCMC HAS AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE WHICH ALL OF YOU MUST SEE...
http://cygpune2008.net/press-media.html
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The preparation is on full swing for the Commonwealth Youth Games which has to begin from 12 October 2008 in Pune, Maharashtra. This is the third Commonwealth Youth Games. The Youth Baton Relay ceremony will be done in New Delhi and will be flagged off from the North Campus of the Delhi University on 1st of August 2008 and will reach Pune on the inaugural of day of the event on 12th of October.Besides roads, public transport is also improving in the city.

Final touches were being given to a massive sports apparatus that has come up on a sprawling 153- acre campus, Shiv Chhatrapati City, the
venue of the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) beginning from October 12.

The week-long sporting extravaganza will be declared open by President Pratibha Patil, who will arrive in the city on October 10 on a four-day visit.

Around 2,000 athletes and officials will participate in the Games being held in Asia for the first time. All 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth will be participating, Suresh Kalmadi, city MP and Chairman of the CYG Organising Committee, told reporters.

Sportspersons will vie for glory in nine disciplines - badminton, boxing, swimming, shooting, tennis, table tennis, wrestling, weightlifting and athletics.

The venue, around 20 km from the city, has been named after Chhatrapati Shivaji with a huge statue of the Maratha warrior mounted on a horse erected in the Games Village.

Considered a forerunner for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, the Youth Games in Pune will showcase India's readiness to host world-class international sports events, Kalmadi said.

The Central Government has sanctioned funds to the tune of Rs 500 crore for various works in the city which would have a permanent infrastructure to hold prestigious global sports competitions, he added.
PUNE AS WE ALL KNOW IS THE ESSENCE OF MAHARASHTRA AND IF NOTHING INTERESTING HAPPENS AT THE CYG I AM SURE AT LEAST THE CULTURAL SHOW PUT UP BY THE 10,000 PUNERI COLLEGE GOING STUDENTS WILL BE A HIT...
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