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PANAJI
Finally, the preparatory work to host the 36th edition of the National Games in October-November next year seems to be taking concrete shape in Goa.
On Tuesday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant will preside over the first official meeting of the organising committee for the National Games at the Ministerial Block of the Secretariat at Porvorim.
Although the detailed agenda of the meeting on Tuesday was not available, Goa Olympic Association said, Mukesh Kumar, who is the chairperson of the National Games Technical Conduct Committee of the Indian Olympic Associaiton (IOA) will attend the meeting.
Kumar and a team of the IOA is also expected to visit the various venues where infrastructure work is underway on Tuesday to oversee the preparations.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, another meeting will be held to which Sawant has invited the Secretary General Rajiv Mehta and other top honchos of the IOA. This meeting too will be held at the Ministerial Block in the Secretariat at 3 pm. Most IOA members are expected to arrive on Tuesday
evening and will be put up at a starred business hotel in the capital city.Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said, the State government has sought a Rs 70-crore financial package specifically for the conduct of the National Games next year from the Centre.
Ajgaonkar, who holds the sports portfolio, said officials of the IOA who will be in Goa will on Tuesday be taken around the various venues where the various disciplines of the National Games are slated to be hosted.
Work at these venues is progressing and the IOA officials will inspect the progress, he said.
