National Games 2015: Kerala gears up for staging the 35th National Games of India   

   Work is on at a furious pace to ready the 30 venues for the January 31-February 14, 2015, National Games in Kerala. Jacob Punnoose, former director general of Kerala Police, who is overseeing the conduct of what would be the biggest sporting extravaganza in the state, said the infrastructure to be created for the Games is ultra-modern with all the facilities.

   “When I took over, things were at a standstill or in an abandoned state in 18 of the 27 places where the facilities had to be created. Of these, nine venues had to be built from scratch and today 12 venues are ready and at the remaining venues, 90 per cent of the work is over and they will all be ready in another 60 days,” Punnoose said. The soft-spoken Punnoose, after retiring from police, was appointed in 2012 as chief commissioner and principal coordinator....