Bhilaians participated enthusiastically in the annual Run-for-SAIl event on Sunday to mark the Foundation Day of the Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl).
Over 2300 participants of different age groups and categories participated in the event organized by the Sports, Cultural & Public Amenities Group of Bhilai Steel Plant which is the flagship unit of the SAIl.
The 5 km run was flagged off from Jayanti Stadium, Indira Place, Bhilai by S Chandrasekaran, Chief Executive Officer in the presence of R Shangeetha, Collector, Durg and Devendra Yadav, Mayor, Bhilai Nagar Nigam, lT Sherpa, ED (P&A), PK Sinha, ED (Mines-Rowghat), SK Saha, ED (Mines), PS Bhadauria, ED (MM), RK Rathi, ED (W), RS Chaturvedi, ED (Projects), GV Rao, Acting GM (F&A), Sunil Jain, ADM, Durg, KK Agrawal ADM, Durg, SK Bajpai, SDM, Markam, SDM, Dhamda, Sk Sundarani, Commissioner, Nagar Nigam (Durg), N Dugga, Commissioner, Nagar Nigam (Bhilai), S Samajdar, CEO, Zila Panchayat, Durg, KK Dwivedi, Dy Director, Industrial Health & Safety, senior officers of Bhilai Steel Plant and District Administration, and a large number of sports persons.
H Devika, President, Bhilai Mahila Samaj and senior office bearers of Bhilai Mahila Samaj were especially present on the occasion.
Participants were divided into different categories: up to Class VI, Class-VII to XII, Over XII to 45 years, 46 years to 60 years in the girls/women and boys/men categories, voluntarily retired employees as well as former employees.
The race concluded at the same venue. At the conclusion of the race S Chandrasekaran and distinguished dignitaries presented prizes to the runners clocking the best timings. In the women’s category, day-boarder Rukhmani Sahu finished the race with the best time of 19 minutes 15.30 seconds.
In the men’s category SAIl Athletics Academy Cadet Ashutosh Kr Bind took 15minutes 41 seconds to record the best time. Shahida Khatun with a time of 24 minutes 0.52 seconds was the fastest in the Girls Category up to class VI while in the same age group in the Boys category, Kumesh Chandrakar clocked 18 minutes 13 seconds to come first.
Runners recording the best timing among all the Run-for-SAIl events organised on the day in different units of the company in the women/men category receive cash award of `5000 each while for the best timers each in girl/boys category (up to class IV) there is a cash award of `3000.