A sudden drizzle and chilling weather failed to deter the spirit of people of Jamshedpur to participate in Jamshedpur Run-a-thon, a 10km ‘Run for Fun’. More than 4,700 registered candidates, including dignitaries from Tata Steel, employees from other companies, students from various institutions and schools and media personnel, participated in the event while a crowd of people from different walks of life cheered for them, including Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar.
The event was attended by government officials like Amitabh Kaushal, D.C., East Singhbhum, Shailendra Kumar Sinha, Rural SP, East Singhbhum and Prem Ranjan, SDO, Jamshedpur. Tata Steel dignitaries present at the event were TV Narendran, M.D. , Ruchi Narendran, Dr. J. J. Irani, former managing director, Daisy Irani, T Mukherjee, AM Misra, Sunil Bhaskaran, Vice President Corporate Services, Suresh Dutt Tripathi, Vice President Human Resource Management, Suresh Kumar, Vice President Shared Services, Rajiv Kumar, Vice President KPO Operations, M. C. Thomas, General Manager OMQ and lt. Gen. Dr. G. Ramdas, General Manager Medical Services among many others. M.D.s of Tata Steel sister companies like Tarun Daga and Neeraj Kant also participated and led their teams by example.
There were different events for various categories of runners. Apart from the 10 km run for elite runners(open to all), where T. V. Narendran was one of the participants, there was a 7 km run for corporates and institutions, a 5 km run for school children and a run for differently-abled Champions.
J. Kerketta, D.S.P. Traffic, Jamshedpur and her team made special efforts to ensure that the runners have an undisturbed path to run along the entire route. After all the races were over, TV Narendran also inaugurated the newly formed gallery for sports history and archives, ‘Action Replay’, at the JRD Sports Complex.