Plastic bottles, food packets, discarded banners, candy bar wrappers - large amounts of rubbish, including single-use plastic items, were dumped along the route that the runners took, leaving many citizens irate.
For example, the BBMP lakes department floated a tender for providing a link fence at Halasuru Lake at an estimated cost of Rs 70 lakh. The BBMP east zone executive engineer (lakes) floated the tender on January 9. The last date for submitting the bids is January 29.