Mysuru: In recent years, the youth, especially those from the IT field, have been giving more importance to long-distance running, specifically, marathon events. Keeping this and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in mind, the Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports will be conducting a marathon, other adventure sports and a cyclothon in Mysuru in order to create awareness about the importance of voting. These events will be held during the first or second week of April.
Half marathons and 10km runs are conducted at least twice or thrice in a month in the city, by various colleges and organisations. People from all walks of life, especially students and IT professionals, participate in these events. Therefore, the Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports decided to use this to attract the people.
Speaking to Newskarnataka.com Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports Assistant Director, K Suresh said, “Apart from the marathon, adventure sports and cyclothons are some of the most preferred events in Mysuru. Hence we decided to make use of these events to create awareness about voting among the people. This election also falls during an extended weekend, therefore we decided to spread awareness about the importance of voting among.” He then added that they are planning to conduct the cyclothon at T Narasipur
