172000 Crore

They say the Chinese Spent equivalent of US $40 Billion on the Olympic games.

For those of us who are Forex (USD/INR) conversion Fanatics, that amounts to:-

Rs. 1720000000000
Rs. 172000 Crore

To Compare, the Planned Expenditure for the 2008 Indian National budget was estimated at Rs. 243,386 crore.

The Chinese have put their heart & money into the games.



BTW: Today,

1 U.S. dollar = 6.84 Chinese yuan