The rains have left all the newly-built stadia water-logged and the synthetic track for athletics could not be laid so far, Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi said in a press release here today.

Kalmadi said the German engineers entrusted with the job of laying the track want a minimum of 20 days free of rain for carrying out the curing work. After curing is done, three weeks of rain-free period is required to lay the track, he added.

``Under the circumstances, it has been decided to postpone the National Games. New dates will be announced later,'' the IOA chief said.

The organising committee said the office of technical conduct committee was closed indefinitely since August 18 owing to non-release of funds.

Vice-president of the organising committee G Joykumar Sharma had sent a letter informing IOA president Kalmadi of the `ground realities'.

Kalmadi, scheduled to visit Imphal on August 22 for an on-the-spot review, had to postpone his trip due to ``bad weather''.

The sports movement committee at Manipur, an organisation set up for development of sports activities in the state, had also urged the IOA chief to postpone the games alleging the construction authorities were ``compromising the technical quality'' to meet the deadline.

The committee also charged the government with ``non-cooperation'' and ``neglect of the committee'' by some senior government officials.

Some senior committee members had alleged the state government had reached a ``secret understanding'' with some senior IOA officials to conduct the Games with less number of disciplines than decided earlier.

``The understanding is to hold the games by conducting only 11 disciplines (out of 27) for which infrastructure development has already been completed,'' they had said on condition of anonymity.

They attributed the move to the government's reluctance to ``back track'' on its July 29 report to IOA that the construction of the Games sites had been completed.