"Please remember to throw away the water bottles in the dustbins," a woman announcer repeatedly requested the crowd before Modi arrived at the venue.
The organisers kept large stacks of 250 ml water bottles at the venue for the participants. But there were not enough dustbins to be found.
Sure enough, empty bottles were flung on the lawns of Rajpath.
But apparently wiser after the last experience, the authorities did not wait for the lawns to empty out of crowds before beginning the cleaning up.
Cleaners were busy quickly picking up strewn plastic bottles with great alacrity while the participants were still running the length from Vijay Chowk to India Gate.
