ISLAMABAD, July 19: The strength of the training camps for next April’s South Asian Games is going to be over 500, the head of the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) said on Tuesday.

“We will be competing in 19 male disciplines and 10 on the female side, so the figure in the camps is definitely going to be over 500,” Brig Arif Mahmud Siddiqui disclosed.

The PSB is to receive preparation plans from the various national federations on July 26 and 27 in Islamabad following which a comprehensive training schedule will be made.

While most of the camps will be in Islamabad, the PSB is likely to hold some of them at its coaching centres in the provinces.

Muhammad Afzal, secretary of the volleyball federation on Tuesday apprised Arif of his federation’s plans for the Games which are to take place in Colombo.