The most loved Half Marathon of the City of Joy (Kolkata) is back again!

KOLKATA, India - Nov. 25, 2019 - PRLog -- The sixth edition of Airtel Run for Education, the most loved Half Marathon in the City of Joy, was flagged off last Sunday from City Centre I, Salt Lake, by Mr. Siddharth Sharma, CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd. West Bengal Telecom Circle in presence of Mr. Anshul Anand, Head Marketing, Bharti Airtel Ltd. West Bengal, Mr. Piyush Daga, President, Round Table India, Mrs. Nidhi Gupta, President, Ladies Circle India, Mr. Nishant Khetawat, Chairman, Calcutta South Round Table India 17, Mr. Atul Gupta, Race Director, Mr. Kunal Khilani, Race Mentor.

ARFE, a joint initiative by Bharti Airtel and Round Table India & Ladies Circle India, is driven along a single loop 21km through a beautiful scenic route around Bengal Silicon IT Hub. The run had 4 categories - 5Km Fun Run, a 5km timed run, a 10Km and a half marathon. Fully sublime T-shirts and spectacular Olympic sized medals were presented to finishers of all the three timed categories. The half marathon category kicked off at 5.15am, followed by the other categories between 6.30am to 7.55am. Records have been made this year in terms of getting the highest number of registered runners ever in this Half Marathon.

The organisers also took the initiative to keep the entire half marathon route trash and pollution-free by conducting a plogging activity on the route in association with Techno India and HSBC Bank. Dedicated runners plogged on the run route to eradicate the plastic pollution that occurred during the event. They also celebrated the spirit of those strong humans of the society who have survived cancer and come out as the strongest, through the 1.3km long Cancer Survival Walk.

Individual performance videos, a cheering army to cheer runners, and personalised T-shirts for finishers were special attractions for runners this year.

This event brought enthusiastic professionals and novice runners on the same platform, displaying the true spirit of humanity, sportsmanship, while generating awareness for the education of the less fortunate.

Round Table India will use all the funds raised through this event in developing infrastructure of needy schools. The funds from the last five editions were used towards building classroom facilities in the following schools -

Sarada Sishu Mandir (2014) (tel:+442014), Katadanga Kendra Vidhyalaya (2015) (tel:+442015), Champdani Ram Dulari Hindi High School (2016) (tel:+442016), Fort Gloster Prathmik School (2017) (tel:+442017), Kanchidiha Saraswati Shishu Mandir Vill Krishananagar(2018) (tel:+442018) & Bright Future Nursery & KG School, Kakdwip, West Bengal
 (2018). (tel:+442018)

33 out of 50 classrooms built by CSRT17 have been built with the support of this event over the last 5 years
(www.airtelrunforeducation.com).