While Sunday’s Mumbai Marathon witnessed tremendous success, with more than 39,000 people participating, the same cannot be said about the State Government’s Road Safety Walkathon. As a part of the 25th edition to promote road safety, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways decided to organise a Walkathon as a last-minute initiative. However, the event did not go as plan.

The Central Ministry issued the notification on January 3 to organise the event with most state governments and looked to start the road safety programme from January 11-13. However, the Maharashtra government has been conducting it for a fortnight and started on January 3 itself.