India’s £300m Commonwealth Games dress rehearsal for 2036 OlympicsThe Commonwealth Games in Amdavad will have a budget double the size of GlasgowThe next Commonwealth Games in Amdavad will have a budget double the size of Glasgow’s in what will be seen as a dress rehearsal for an Olympic Games in India. Glasgow’s slimmed-down Games, which concluded on Sunday, had a budget of £150m, around half of the £300m which has been set aside for the 2030 centenary edition in the north west of India. Olympics in India? India has developed a bid for the 2036 Games, to be staged in Ahmedabad like the Commonwealth Games, alongside submissions from South Africa, Qatar, Istanbul and Chile. There are other potential bids likely from nations including Egypt, South Korea, Saudi Arabia.