New Delhi:
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 village
According to their site in-charges, they were brought in for the clean-up. The workers will be covering the entire CWG village and will be working there for the next 10 days.
Piling on the embarrassment for the organisers, Hooper on Tuesday termed the Athletes Village as "filthy and uninhabitable" but hoped that with CGF President Michael Fennell's intervention, the mess would be sorted out in the next two days.
(Read: Games Village filthy, uninhabitable: Hooper)"Predominantly the issue is of cleanliness of the towers in the residential zone. The matter came to our attention when we paid a preliminary visit to the Games Village on September 15 along with some representatives of the advanced parties of Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA)," Hooper told reporters at a press conference.
"Ever since Sep 15, we along with CGAs met on daily basis. We also held meetings with OC officials and emphasised the importance of addressing the issue of cleanliness of the Village, which I have to say in many towers are filthy and uninhabitable as stated by Mr Fennel," he added.
(Video Special: Commonwealth Games in a mess)Hooper's comments came after an advanced party from New Zealand, Canada, Scotland and Ireland raised serious concerns regarding the hygiene in the residential zone of the Games' Village.
No sooner it came to light, CGF President Fennell came out with a strongly-worded statement, wherein he criticised the Organising Committee for the mess and said he had written to the Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, expressing his concerns about the athletes accommodation.
Hooper, however, hoped that with Fennell's intervention the matter would be resolved at the earliest.