The district administration organized a marathon under the SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation) programme. The race was organized as part of the efforts towards total electoral participation .The race was started from Maharana Pratap Chowk and ends at Subhash Chandra Bose Chowk. Hundreds of students from ten school including Sacred Heart School,PVSS DAV public School,Modern Pub lic School, C H +2 Inter School, Shivtara Saraswati Mandir participated in the race. Additional Collector Arvind Kumar Mishra,Abhay Kumar Sinha Deputy Development Commissoner,Naushad Alam ASP, KP Yadav Telaiya PS incharge, Subodh Kumar District Transport Officer, Principals and directors of different schools and other officials also participated in the race.