Mangalore: Inaugurating the Paika Women’s Sports meet at the local Mangala Stadium in city on Thursday (Nov.14), the State Youth and Sports Minister K Abhayachandra Jain from Moodabidre informed the gathering that the state had 7 synthetic tracks which are the highest for any state in India.

Four more Synthetic tracks are being laid in different places in 30 districts of the states.

11 more districts not covered by the scheme so far will also be beneficiaries of such synthetic tracks as in Mangalore in the next 2 or 3 years.

D.C N Prakash,  Mangalore MLA J. R. Lobo and District in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai were present.