Forget city, here is a village organizing half marathon run event

Bhuj, 23 May 2012

While cities organizing half marathon and marathon event is normal trend, here is a news about a village that is going to organize half-marathon event.

It is Kutch’s Madhapar village that will host ‘Akhil Kutch Half Marathon Run’ event on 24th of May morning. According to village sarpanch Arjanbhai Bhudiya, the half marathon run event has been organized to bring awareness about the need of water conservation and tree plantation.

He said the village has planned plantation of 1000 trees. He said development works are completed before monsoon at Karimori and Yaksh water bodies with cooperation of villagers.

The village has also organized Bhagvat saptah, enviornment based play, cultural event and other programmes in this summer to create awareness and to collect fund for tree plantation and water conservation activities before mosoon.