State Bank of India flagged off its second edition of annual flagship programme ‘SBI Green Marathon’ to promote sustainability. Partha Pratim Sengupta, DMD & CCO, SBI and Ranjan Kumar Mishra, CGM, Kolkata Circle, SBI flagged off the event. The event witnessed the participation of 7500 runners in Kolkata. Ashok Kumar Prasad IPS, IGP (II), CID, West Bengal participated in the 21 kms marathon. Swapna Barman, Indian Heptathlete, Gold Medalist, Asian Games 2018 along with Debasish Biswas – first Bengali mountaineer to scale Mt. Everest also graced the event. Participants from across the city took part in the 5 kms, 10 kms, 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 clean and green city and their bibs consisted of seeds for tree plantation post Marathon.

SBI General Insurance was the health partner for SBI Green Marathon.