new delhi prime minister narendra modi will interact with the countrys birmingham commonwealth games cwgbound sportspersons tentatively on july 20 at 1000 am via a virtual conference the birmingham edition of the games will run from july 28 to august 8 the indian olympic association ioa has announced a 322strong contingent for the cwg including 215 athletes and 107 officials and support stafftoi has learnt that the sports authority of indias sai target olympic podium scheme tops division has sent out mails to the cwgbound athletes informing them about the proposed interaction and to keep themselves available for a dry run in the lead up to the event various members of the squad have already reached birmingham over the past few days depending on their training schedule as worked out by their coaches some members are competing at various global locations and would reach the venue directly while the rest of the contingent will leave from new delhi indian athletes will enter the athletes village after its formal opening on july 23in one of the mails from the sais tops division an athlete relation manager arm wrote dear athletes coaches support staff we would take the moment to congratulate and wish you all the best for representing our country at the upcoming 2022 commonwealth games birmingham with the aforesaid honble prime minister of india to ameliorate your spirits is looking forward to interact with the athletes participating in the upcoming 2022 cwg tentatively on the 20th july 2022 1000 am via video conferencing in this regard you are requested to kindly keep yourself available for the same on 20th july and a few days prior for the dry runits been learnt that sports secretary sujata chaturvedi would personally be interacting with the cwgbound sportspersons in batches in the days leading up to the interactionat the 2018 gold coast cwg india had finished third with 66 medals behind traditional powerhouses australia and england some prominent names in the birmingham squad besides olympic champion neeraj chopra include tokyo games medallist p v sindhu mirabai chanu lovlina borgohain bajrang punia and ravi kumar dahiya defending cwg champions manika batra vinesh phogat as well as 2018 asian games gold medallists hima das and amit panghal are also part of the contingent team india will compete in 15 sporting disciplines as well as four disciplines in the para sports category