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State Bank of India launched its second edition of annual flagship programme ‘SBI Green Marathon’

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Bhubaneswar:3/2/19 :Country’s largest bank State Bank of India today launched its second edition of annual flagship programme ‘SBI Green Marathon’ to promote sustainability.

Praveena Kala, CGM, Bhubaneswar Circle and Pushan Mahapatra, MD & CEO, SBI General Pvt Ltd. SBI flagged off the event that witnessed nearly 3000 enthusiastic runners in Bhubaneswar.

Kalpana Dash— first Odia mountaineer to scale Mt. Everest, Anuradha Biswal— national record holder for 100m hurdles and Sradhanjali Samantaray—former captain, Indian women’s football team, also graced the event. William Xalxo, former hockey Olympian attended the event as well.

The Sunday morning in the Kalinga Sports Complex observed participants from across the city running 5, 10, 21 Kms marathon, pledging for a greener future.

Senior officials of the bank also contributed to the “Run for Green” theme and ran the marathon along with other participants. All the runners were given organic t-shirts to promote the clean and green city and their bibs consisted of seeds for tree plantation post-Marathon.

SBI in the next 1 month is also rolling out its green marathon in Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Patna, Kolkata and Jaipur with nine marathon events got concluded in New Delhi Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Trivandrum, Guwahati, Bhopal and Chennai in the last 4 months.

SBI General Insurance is the health partner for SBI Green Marathon whereas SBI Life, SBI Mutual Funds and SBI Card are also significantly contributing to this zero waste event.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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