STATE TIMES NEWS
KATHUA: The NSS and NCC unit of the Government Degree College (GDC) for Women, Kathua in collaboration with District Youth Services & Sports and Nehru Yuva Kendra Kathua, on Saturday observed World Bicycle Day under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav.
The event began with garlanding of statue at Shaheed Bhagat Singh park followed by a Bicycle Rally which was flagged off by the Deputy Commissioner, Kathua from Sports Stadium to ensure Jan Bhaghidari.
The route for the rally was from Sports Stadium Kathua to Keerian Kandyal in which volunteers under the supervision of Dr. Arun Dev Singh, NSS Programme Officer showed active participation.
After covering a distance of near about 20 km, the rally was welcomed by Dr. Sangita Nagari, the Principal of the College who appreciated the volunteers for being a part of “Fit India Freedom Cycle Rally”.
She addressed the volunteers and mentioned that the aim to conduct such rallies is to encourage and motivate the People to take up and adopt Cycling as a part of Physical fitness activities and get freedom from obesity, Laziness, Stress and Anxiety like diseases.
She also stressed upon the fact that the usage of cycling will also felicitate the reduction of carbon fuel footprints.
She also added that usage of cycles would be helpful for the reduction of fuel use in future and Fuel can be saved at large scale for the use of future generation and by using cycle the future generation may be hale and hearty physically as well as mentally, their physical standard will also be uplifted.
After that the slogan writing and poster making activities were done by the volunteers based on the theme of adopting cycling as a norm for healthier life and global warming.
The whole programme concluded with recitation of National Anthem by the NSS volunteers.
Principal distributed certificates to the NSS team and Volunteers who participated in the said event.
The day’s activities were successfully completed and managed by the NSS team comprised of Prof. Raj Kumari, Dr. Rajni Khajuria and Prof. Pallavi and Roshan Lal.
Prof. Ashwani Khajuria appreciated the volunteers for the successful completion of the day’s activities. Prof. Ravinder Kour also encouraged volunteers who worked with such a zeal and enthusiasm in such events.
