Amidst of all the controversies related to endless scams, massive budget overruns, rampant alleged corruption, shoddy workmanship, poor planning, weak accountability, bureaucratic infighting and swindles associated with the Commonwealth Games.
Contrary to all that, the recently concluded Games were a grand success.
Indian contingent has shown their zeal and character and were second in the overall medals tally best ever in the terms of medal count.
There was an interesting statement came into limelight before the start of the Games.
The statement was by the opposition politician and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who called the event preparation a "debacle.
" "Even if the [prime minister] starts wiping the floor, the venues won't be ready for the Games," he said.
India won the bid in 2003 to host one of the world's biggest sporting events.
That means that the organizers had almost 7 years to prepare for the event.
As China our faster-developing Asian neighbor successfully hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, there was a pressure mounting upon India to make this event a success.
Even then at least seven "final" deadlines were blown, and construction at venues and related urban-renewal projects were woefully behind.
But some-how organizers with the help of army forces able to fix all the problems and at the dying minutes pulled everything on its place.
You can sense something fishy is going on and the irony was that the common person knew that the whole show was going to be a moneymaking exercise for various bureaucrats, and their contractors, suppliers and middlemen.
The association and the people responsible for the games were hardly bothered until the last minute wakeup call by Honorable Prime Minister who was literally dragged to intervene on the matter as national pride was on stake.
A Glance of the Total Money spent in Commonwealth Games:

• Rs 28,054 crore have been spent on the games out of which Rs 16,560 crore was given to the Delhi Government for upgrading the capital infrastructure and building of various stadia.
  
• Delhi Government has spent on various projects which includes Rs 650 crore for street scraping, Rs 900 crore for development bus depots, Rs 3,000 crore for extension of Metro, Rs 18,000 crore for augmenting DTC bus services and Rs 3,700 crore on flyovers and bridges.
  
• Of the Rs 11,494 crore spent by the centre, Rs 2.
  934 crore was spent on sports infrastructure and Rs 678 crore on training of teams, while Rs 182 crore has been given to MTNL, Rs 827.
  85 crore to the Ministry of Urban Development, Rs 487.
  57 to Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Rs 747 crore to Health Ministry.
  
• The government has also given Rs 2,394 crore as loan to the organising committee, which is to be returned by them after the games.
  
• The Delhi Government has also spent Rs 400 crore on parking facilities, Rs 200 crore on communications and IT and Rs 2,000 crore on power plants.
  

The truth is the Commonwealth Games 2010 has nothing to do with the development of India and nobody knows what will happen to all the money that had been spent on the so-called infrastructure after the games.
One thing that it has done is that it has drawn attention away from a much more shocking scandal: millions of tons of government-procured food grains rotted in the open, even as there are reports of chronic malnutrition and starvation in many parts of the country.
The estimation released was shocking.
Our government has wasted Food grains enough to feed over 212 million people.
The reason given was hard to swallow the food grains were lying in godowns, being eaten by rats, due to the lack of storage space, have been dumped in the open.
What's more staggering is that Rs 28,054 crore have been spent on the games and that too at the cost 212 million people.
And Nobody cares to ask why?