jamshedpur a senior official of jharkhand sports department on tuesday said the state government has decided to hold preparatory camps for the 35th national games under the supervision of officials of respective sports association the jharkhand olympic association joa had demanded release of funds directly to it like the last 34th national but the state government decided to hold camps this time under the supervision of officials of respective sports associations director sports of jharkhand dadan choubey said funds could not be released due to model code of conduct in force following the ensuing elections the director sports said we have assured them that the government will provide all facilities for the camps to be held under the supervision of the officials of the sports associations qualified for the games choubey said the director sports claimed many players have reached ranchi to take part in the firstphase preparatory camp even as jharkhand olympic association joa denied the claim as per the schedule athletes players of hockey wrestling swimming along with officials have arrived in ranchi to take part in the first phase of the preparatory camp from tomorrow choubey said however joas interim secretary shivendu dubey said no sports association has participated in the camp as the government did not release funds we have sent a letter to the sports department recently and served a 15day ultimatum to release the funds for the preparatory camps he said the joa would conduct coaching camps on its own if the government failed to release funds he added incidentally the secretary general of joa s m hashmi and former director sports p k mishra are in judicial custody now after being arrested on october 16 in connection with financial irregularities in the 34th national games hosted by jharkhand