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Empowered Security<br />
Committee<br />
Security in such a major international event<br />
is always the top most priority and to ensure<br />
that there is no room for lapses in the security<br />
arrangements for the Games an empowered<br />
Security Committee was constituted by Minister<br />
of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India<br />
& Chairman OC-SAG with Chief Secretary,<br />
Assam as the Chairperson and Chief Secretary,<br />
Meghalaya as Co-chairperson. The Committee<br />
was set up to review all security matter pertaining<br />
to the Games and had Secretary Sports - GoI,<br />
Secretary (Internal Security) Ministry of Home<br />
Affairs – GoI, Principal Secretaries of Assam &<br />
Meghalaya and DGPs of Assam & Meghalaya<br />
as members with CEO OC-SAG as the convener.<br />
For implementation of every security measure<br />
separate Sub-committees under the Chairmanship<br />
of DGP Assam and DGP Meghalaya were set up<br />
in Guwahati and Shillong respectively. The subcommittee’s<br />
consisted of Jt.Director (IB Assam &<br />
Meghalaya), Commissioner of Police (Guwahati),<br />
Deputy Commissioner(Guwahati & Shillong),<br />
Municipal Commissioner (Guwahati) & SSP<br />
(Shillong) as members. Jt.CEO in Guwahati &<br />
CEO in Shillong was appointed as the conveners<br />
of these sub-committes. The empowered Security<br />
Committee ensured that all the security concerns<br />
at any point of time were addressed immediately,<br />
thereby, ensuring complete security for the<br />
Games.<br />
Monitoring Mechanism<br />
When delivering an event of this magnitude it became<br />
imperative to review and monitor the progress of<br />
works at each and every step. A robust reviewing<br />
and monitoring mechanism was put in place in this<br />
regard, a weekly progress report was prepared for<br />
the senior management every week and fortnightly<br />
updates on the Games Master Schedule were<br />
made to review the progress of works. In addition,<br />
periodic review meetings were held by the CEO<br />
where detailed presentations were made regarding<br />
all functional areas indicating the progress made<br />
and the issues faced. The review meetings were<br />
instrumental in flagging the issues in a timely<br />
manner and a lot of crisis moments during the<br />
planning phase could be averted due to quick<br />
resolution of issues in the review meetings.<br />
Thus, it is fair to say that the institutional<br />
mechanism put in place in the form of Executive<br />
Committee, Finance Committee, Infrastructure<br />
Committee, Games Technical Conduct Committee,<br />
Empowered Security Committee and the<br />
review meetings was the most decisive factor in<br />
Games planning, which enabled the Organising<br />
Committee to be able to plan for the best South<br />
Asian Games ever, in a short span of time.<br />
12 th SOUTH ASIAN GAMES | POST GAMES REPORT 51
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