PM sets up GoM to examine Shunglu Committee findings

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) India's Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh has constituted a ministerial panel, headed by Defence
Minister A K Antony, to examine the findings of the Shunglu
Committee that probed alleged irregularities in conduct of the
Commonwealth Games here last year.
The Group of Ministers, set up last week, has been asked
to consider the responses of the Union Ministries, the Delhi
government and its various agencies to the findings of the
high-level committee headed by former Comptroller and Auditor
General V K Shunglu.
The Shunglu Committee has so far submitted six reports on
the Commonwealth Games to the government.
The GoM has been asked to recommend the course of action
on each of the recommendations of the committee, which would
include disciplinary, criminal and civil action against
persons/agencies/contractors indicated in the reports.
The ministerial panel has also been asked to recommend
policies and guidelines for future conduct of similar events.
The Prime Minister had on October 25 last year appointed
the Shunglu committee to investigate all alleged
irregularities in executing various projects by several
government agencies during the Games held between October 3-14
last year.
By mid-July, the PMO had received a number of documents
as ministers' defense against findings of the Shunglu
Committee.
Delhi government and Central Public Works department had
gone public to reject the Shunglu panel findings saying the
conclusions were not based on facts.
Besides Antony, the GoM has HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Law
Minister Salman Khurshid and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma as
members. Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy is a
special invitee. The GoM has been asked to submit its report
in three months.