panaji the sports authority of goa sag has refused to pay an additional guarantee money of rs 175 crore to the indian olympic association ioa to host the national games in 2016 goa won the bid to host the 36th national games in 2008 when suresh kalmadi was at the helm of affairs goa duly paid the guarantee money of rs 25 lakh to host the national games in 2011 but with jharkhand uttar pradesh and kerala all ahead of them delaying hosting of the games goas turn is scheduled to come in 2016 we have received a letter from the ioa stating they have increased the guarantee money for hosting the national games from rs 25 lakh to rs 2 crore for all national games to be held in the future said sag executive director sandip jacques the sag called for a general body meeting on monday under the chairmanship of chief minister laxmikant parsekar and it was unanimously resolved not to pay any additional guarantee money i have asked the sag to write to us and we will take it up with the ioa the general body felt such a rule should be applicable only to future national games and not to bids that were won much before this decision was taken said goa olympic association secretary gurudatta bhakta we have to convince the ioa but i do not know how the ioa will react to goas decision said bhakta who attended the general body meeting due to financial constraints goa has resolved to host only 28 disciplines so far and will use infrastructure built for the lusofonia games 2014 six new complexes and upgrading of existing facilities will cost the state government an estimated rs 175 crore but there is a huge question mark over shooting a highpriority sport goa does not want to invest in an expensive shooting range since the sport has negligible following in the state and has instead asked the defence ministry led by former chief minister manohar parrikar to bail them out we have asked the defence minister to accommodate the setting up of a shooting range in one of their establishments that is located in goa this could be used during the games by the state government and thereafter could be used by defence personnel and given for civilian use as and when the need arises the sag said in its agenda notes the defence ministry is yet to reply