The organising committee secretary of 60th All India Police Games 2011, Raveendran Sankaran, inspects the logo for the games at Mithilesh Stadium in Patna on Wednesday. Picture by Ashok Sinha

Patna, Jan. 18: The preparations for the 60th All India Police Games 2011 (volleyball cluster) have entered the last lap. With only two weeks left for the mega sports event, the organisers are working overtime to make Mithilesh Stadium on the Bihar Military Police campus ready for the event.

The organising committee members of the event are hitting the ground early in the morning to instruct the workers on the nitty-gritty of the arrangements. They are minutely inspecting the execution of every assignment.

Director-general of police (DGP) Abhayanand inaugurated the ground at the stadium on January 15. Till date, 25 police teams of different states and the central paramilitary force have confir- med their participation in the event, being organised in Bihar after a gap of about 17 years.

The event will kick off on February 1. It will continue till February 5.

About 2,000 sportspersons from other states and the central organisations are expected to take part in volleyball, basketball, handball and kabaddi competitions. Government bungalows and guesthouses of both the state and central government organisations have been booked for providing accommodation to the participants.

Sources in the state police headquarters said teams of 18 states, including two Union territories, besides those of the central forces like Border Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Railway Protection Force, Central Reserve Police Force and the Central Industrial Security Force have been registered.

The police teams of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bengal, Haryana, Assam, Chandigarh and Uttarakhand have confirmed their participation in the games.

The police teams of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir would take part in the games besides the host state, Bihar.

Organising committee secretary Raveendran Sankaran said the participants have been provided with the facility of getting registered online. Till date, 25 teams of different states and the central forces have registered for participating in the games, he said, adding that some other teams would also take part in the event.

Sankaran said separate courts to match the international standards were being made for the sportspersons at the venue.

“International quality mats will be made available to the kabaddi players,” he said.

Two courts with international standard mats for kabaddi players and a court for basketball were inaugurated by the DGP on January 15. Friendly matches were organised that day.

The DGP is the chairman of the 19 committees set up by the police headquarters to make the event a grand success. The committees comprise the officers of director-general, additional director-general, inspector-general and deputy inspector-general rank.

The organising committee of the games has decided to convene a meeting of the office-bearers of different sports associations of the state on the Veterinary College campus on January 22 to discuss the issues plaguing the state’s sportspersons. Some eminent sportspersons would also be invited.

“The purpose of the meeting is to seek suggestions on improving the condition of the sportspersons in the state and to bring Bihar in the limelight on sports arena,” Raveendra said.

The website, www.aipgbihar.org.in, was launched by the DGP on November 22, 2011. The official logo of the event — dolphin — was released on December 16, 2011.

The 59th All India Police Games was organised in Jammu and Kashmir in March 2011.