CWG: Wrestling venue’s false ceiling collapses near Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium

New Delhi : A day after a foot overbridge collapsed near Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), there was more embarrassment as the false ceiling of the weightlifting venue in the stadium, the showpiece stadium of the Games, fell down on Wednesday.

The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the civil body that was in charge of renovating the stadium, said tiles came down as maintenance work was being carried out in the air conditioning duct in the false ceiling.

The weightlifting event is scheduled to be held at the newly-built hall where the ceiling fell.

“Maintenance work was being carried in the false ceiling and two tiles have fallen. It is just a matter of time we will get it right. We have to take the scaffold to a certain height and tighten it. Nobody was injured,” Rajendra Kala of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), told reporters.

Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandreshekhar told television channels that the collapse was not an issue to be “worried about”.

“The cables which were to be set up for the data network were placed on the false ceiling and due to the weight of the cables the ceiling fell off. It’s a minor thing and it will be corrected. It’s not a matter to be worried about,” Chandreshekhar told CNN-IBN channel.

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) CEO, Mike Hooper said that he was not responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the Delhi Games.