Cyclists from Delhi-NCR celebrate 21 Days Cycling for Health and Environment

The event was started in October first week of 2022

By : Community Reporter
Posted : February 13, 2023

Cyclists from Delhi-NCR celebrate 21 Days Cycling for Health and Environment

Cyclists from different parts of Delhi NCR celebrated their Completion of 21 Days Winter Cycling this Sunday (February 12, 2023) at Sanjay Van organised by The Daredevils, an organisation which promotes sports activities in the community. The event was started in October first week of 2022 as the ‘21 Days Winter Cycling Challenge to promote cycling and encourage community people to use Eco-friendly modes of transport.

The format of the challenge was to use a cycle at least on weekends and complete a total of 21 days in Winters.

Founder of ‘The Daredevils' Deepak Chowdhary says, “We just tried people to come out in weekends leaving laziness in winter and do cycling. So this was of total 21 days of cycling on 30 Weekend Days since October. It was launched pan India and a total of 600 cyclists participated. From Delhi NCR there were about 150 participants.”

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Mr Chowdhary says that the event was conceptualised to make people inspire to use cycles to work and to promote an eco-friendly mode of transport and reduce pollution. “We will be organising such events further as this will help in decreasing pollution and on the other hand it will promote health and fitness in the community,” he added.

Aradhna Das from Urban Cyclist Group Dwarka participated in the challenge with her group and completed it successfully. She says, “We represented Dwarka in the challenge and are happy to share that we completed it. This was an amazing experience for us.”

Vineet Kumar and Aradhana Das
Credits: Supplied

Sadhna

435 Days Ago

THEY HAVE ORGANISED AND MANAGED THE EVENT VERY BADLY … Mr. Deepak committed to providing a reflective jacket, but it was not given to participants who successfully completed the challenge. He has given the excuse by saying you have provided T-shirts to participants, we already have the same T-shirt that we got at the event from Max and Fortis Hospitals. (Distributed free of cost that time) # Given special treatment to the person who has not completed the challenge by at least 4–5 rides; this was unfair treatment/facilitation. Moreover, more than 50% of the riders to whom you distributed trophies and medals have not completed the challenge; even some team leaders have not completed the challenge. (Those mentioned in the above pics had also not completed the challenge) # Mr. Deepak provided the same level of goodies to riders who completed 2-3 rides, 10 rides, or all 21 rides; This was extremely disappointed. He has given away prizes to people you know well (or who you might work with in the future) rather than to qualified candidates. ALL THE EFFORTS OF ELIGIBLE MEMBERS GONE IN WASTE DUE TO THE ORGANISER