The 34th National Games will be held from November 30 to December 13 in Jharkhand, S Hashmi, secretary of Jharkhand Olympic Association (JOA) and secretary of organising committee of the National Games said on Tuesday.

The National Games was schedule to take place from December 1 to December 13 but IOA had preponed it by a day, he said. The overall progress of work and development of sports facilities for the Games was satisfactory and will be ready in time, barring the basketball court at Ranchi.

“We are expected to take over the facilities by the month end,” he said. The infrastucture to hold basketabll events was likely to be completed by November end, while facilities for football, hockey, gymnastics, kabadi, khokho are almost ready. The stadium for hosting track and field events was also near completion and the synthetic track would be in place in a fortnight,” he said. PTI