Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur to launch Nationwide programmes on World Bicycle Day on June 3

Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur will launch the Nationwide programmes on World Bicycle Day tomorrow from Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi. During the launch ceremony, Mr. Thakur along with Seven Hundred Fifty Young Cyclists will peddle on seven and a half-kilometre distance. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports said that the cycle rallies will be conducted by Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan at 75 iconic places across the country during which 75 participants will cover the distance of seven and a half-kilometre distance. The Ministry informed that more than nine lakh sixty eight thousand kilometres distance will be covered by one lakh twenty nine thousand young cyclists through the proposed Bicycle Rallies in a single day tomorrow. The aim of this programme is to encourage and motivate people to take up and adopt cycling in their daily lives for physical fitness activities and get freedom from diseases.