1st Patna Marathon 2012
Patna,
Jan 10, 2012: The organizing team of, 1st Patna Marathon announced few
major developments over last few weeks. Since its inception of Patna
Marathon by BEN (Bihar Entrepreneur Network) a series of developments
have taken place. For administrative and logistics reasons and upon
request of Deputy Chief Minister Shree Sushil Modi, the scheduled date
of Patna Marathon has been postponed from Feb 19, 2012 to Feb 26,
2012.The organizers have been continuously working hard to rope in
corporate as well as government to work together and celebrate growth
process of Bihar through first ever Marathon in Patna.
In
the recent days a more vigorous efforts have been made through a series
of meetings with Partners, Sponsors, Government Departments and the
global teams regarding successful conduct of this event. The Government
of Bihar, including Deputy Chief Minister Shree Sushil Modi, Tourism
Minister, Sunil Pinto, Minister of Youth, Art & Culture Sukhda
Pandey, and top officials have shown their keen interest in making this
event a grand success.
While
Feb 19, 2012 being end date of Global Summit will host a series of
NRI´s, scholars and investors of Bihar including a few heads of state
from neighboring countries like Nepal, Bhutan, they may also have to
reschedule their stay in Patna for additional one week until Feb 26,
2012 to participate in Patna Marathon and be part of this historic
moment of run for progress of Bihar through its 1st Global Scale sports
event where elite runners from Africa, other countries, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Orissa, UP, neighboring states and rest of India are expected
to participate.
Many
government departments including HRD (Education); Art, Youth &
Culture; Health; Tourism; Rural Development; Police and Armed Forces
have expressed solidarity & support to the event that got expressed
in the official letter issued by Principal Secretary Shri C Lalsota to
his colleagues to ensure full support to the event. It is very
encouraging to note that there is a tremendous excitement amongst youth
and mass of Patna regarding their participation in this event. Various
educational institutions of Bihar including Armed Forces and Police
Forces, schools, colleges, NIT Patna, BIT Patna, NIFT have also been
extending full support.
As
a preparation for event, the organizers under leadership of Shri Atul
Kumar, CEO of Patna Marathon have also started operating out of a Camp
office at Shaligram Complex on Ashok Rajpath, Patna which is in close
proximity to Gandhi Maidan (start point and finish point) and various
educational institutions. The Camp Office at Shaligram Complex, will be
formally inaugurated after Makar Sankranti via a Pooja and press
conference.
It is an earnest appeal to all to give a wider publicity to this event and make it a grand success.
Sd/
Ravi Kumar
Director (Media & Outreach) I PATNA MARATHON
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