AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) 8th Marathon race 2015 organised by Tripura Players Welfare Association was held today at the capital city Agartala. The race kicked off from Agartala old Central jail ground and covered a distance of 21 km for the male contestants while 8 km for the female contestants.

 Excelled with a haul of five gold medals for Tripura, the artistic gymnast Deepa Karmakar has inaugurated the marathon race today being a bran ambassador of it. Minister for Sports Sahid Choudhuri and ONGC Asset Manager V. K. Mahawar also remained present today and participated in the marathon race. The race today kicked off from Morning 6:00.

However later prizes were distributed among the rank holders from the participants categorizing the two groups – male and female.