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Bicycle tour to sensitise people on pollution enters Nizamabad
A 29-year-old former software engineer embarked on a bicycle tour, titled “Ride for Green India” to educate people on the need for checking environmental pollution, entered the city on Tuesday -- covering 2000 km across 12 km.
Nizamabad: A 29-year-old former software engineer embarked on a bicycle tour, titled “Ride for Green India” to educate people on the need for checking environmental pollution, entered the city on Tuesday -- covering 2000 km across 12 km.
He was identified as Boddolla Ravi Kiran, son of farmer couple Hanumandlu and Ratnamala of Old Varni in Varni mandal of the district. His parents also run a provisional store for eking out their livelihood.
Yearning to do something for the country, he gave up Rs 40,000-a-month salary job in a software company and embarked on a 5000-km-long Kashmir-to-Kanyakumari tour to save the society from environmental pollution. He launched the tour at Kanyakumari in January first week and is expected to last till April.
He reached the Indian Public School at Vinayaka Nagar in the city on Tuesday. Joint Collector Ravinder Reddy appreciated the youth’s initiative. Kiran was given a rousing welcome by the school students. He made a video presentation of his tour and also how to save the country from pollution.
He advocated segregation of garbage into wet and dry categories, advised students against using two-wheelers even to perform minor tasks, asked them to use only cloth bags in place of plastic bags, wanted farmers to apply only organic manures and suggested tapping eco-friendly solar power.
He advised the students to plant saplings. He said he targeted children in his awareness programmes as he believed that sensitising them would mean bringing in a greater transformation in the society.
He opened a Facebook page titled ‘Ride for India’ and posted his tour details. Besides, he also posted the suggestions of what people should do to make the country free from pollution.
Before embarking on the ‘Ride for Better India’ programme, he successfully executed programmes ‘Ride for Better Farmer’, Ride for Hyderabad Traffic Police and Ride for Unsung Heroes (defence personnel).
He launched the great journey (yatra) by spending from his own pocket. He refused support from his friends. He lamented that an organisation refused financial support to his yatra.
The youth, who worked for sometime in a software company at Bangalore was later transferred to Hyderabad before he gave up his job to launch the tour. He said he would find a suitable job after the concluding the yatra.
On being asked whether he encountered any problems en-route, he replied in the negative. He acquired the bicycle at a cost of Rs 21000. He wears a helmet that costs Rs 2000. The helmet has two blinking lights in the rear as a precautionary measure.
The bicycle has a battery-run light and an odometer that runs on blue tooth. On either side of the bicycle, he fitted it with boards highlighting slogans on environment. Two flower pots are fitted in the rear of the bicycle, which also displays the national tricolor.
The youth predicts that he would incur a total expenditure of Rs 2.75 lakh by the time he winds up his all-India bicycle tour.
