A huge market for sports business in India ? Here's proof

Commonwealth Games Federation chief Mike Fennell has warned Delhi it faces a major challenge to be ready to host next year's games.

Last month Fennell criticised the Indian organisers, saying construction delays posed a serious threat to the games

International experts are to be brought in to assist the Indians in areas such as logistics, ticketing and operations.

Courtesy: http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/170698/fennell-india-behind-schedule-for-commonwealth-games?utm_source=sbinsl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct13


Begs the question that do we have well qualified people here who understand and have studied subjects like crowd safety, logistics, stadium promotion / construction, what it takes to fill up stadiums etc....Looking at where we are with the CWG does not look to be the case.
Pune, hosted the youth CWG just last year and we were in the same state with 2 months to go.Then there were was a crash and burn type approach used and we just about met the deadlines.Some of the targets that were set were never met. A failure in execution and of course the budget was seriously overrun by the time the games reached here.the same thing has happened in Delhi as well.A successful project is one which meets all the given requirements withing the preset time line and budget.Everything else is a failure.

Sports management like any other subject requires the study of a strong body of work as well as valuable experience and guidance.That statement in bold above clearly shows that there are experts abroad while we don't have any job profiles in the areas mentioned.
Considering our place in cricket and the fact that we are trying to promote sports like hockey,football,volleyball etc. we need to host a lot of 'successful' tournaments.

The CWG in Delhi is definitely not a trend setter....


Edit: As an afterthought. I had recently gone to watch an i-league football match between Pune FC and East Bengal at the balewadi stadium.Just as half time approached there was a heavy shower and because of the way the stadium has been made the rains actually started pouring on the 8000 odd people who were present there.The crowd then started going helter skelter in search of some dry patch ( me included ) . But there were none.Not only did all the people get wet but if the 8000 was 12000 this could have been a serious threat in terms of a stampede.