Mumbai Marathon raises Rs 20 crore

MUMBAI: Organizers of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2014, along with their charity partners United Way of Mumbai, broke all previous records to raise Rs 20.11 crore. This is an increase of Rs 1.5 crore from last year. The money will benefit 269 NGOs associated with the event this year.

The amount raised by SCMM 2014 was announced at an event held in the city on Thursday and governor K Sankaranarayanan was the chief guest. "Mumbai marathon truly represents the spirit of this city and knows no difference between the young and old, poor and rich, able-bodied and physically challenged. Its growing response is testimony to the tremendous popularity and mass appeal," said the governor.

This year, SCMM brought together 39,510 participants and the final funds raised were the combined efforts of 171 participating companies, 1,254 fundraisers and 14,742 individual donors.

Shrimad Rajchandra Love & Care emerged as the highest fund-raising NGO for the fourth year in a row, having generated Rs 1.59 crore. Save the Children was close with Rs 1.04 crore, followed by Isha Education that raised Rs 1 crore. Ramani Sankara Raman was the highest individual fund raiser this year with an amount of Rs 28.77 lakh for Amar Seva Sangam.

The organisers also felicitated press photographers for capturing some of the best moments at SCMM 2014. TOI photographers Santosh Bane and Sanjay Hadkar were amongst the four press photographers felicitated on Thursday.

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