A comfy bed with clean linen, neat and spacious rooms, an attached bathroom and a mini fridge thrown in. This is not the classified description of a holiday resort but what the Delhi government is desperately seeking from residents with spare rooms ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The government is leaving no stone unturned to find accommodation options for the tens of thousands of tourists expected to throng the capital in the months before and during the Games. In the past month alone the government has gone all out to advertise and promote home stays and bed and breakfasts. The urgency is apparent.

"Resident welfare associations have been roped in to promote the concept, door-to-door campaigning with pamphlets and promotional material is rampant and the scheme is even being advertised in newspapers and bus kiosks," Kulanand Joshi, general manager, Delhi Tourism, told IANS.