The Guwahati biking neighborhood, which had began its mission a few years in the past to guard the surroundings and save gasoline, apart from popularising biking as a mode of recreation, is now serving to Covid sufferers, ailing individuals and senior residents. The ‘Cycling Community’ of Guwahati launched the ‘Relief Riders’ mission two weeks in the past to serve Covid sufferers, ailing individuals, senior residents and people in misery with important gadgets, together with meals and medicines. One of the pioneers of the ‘Relief Riders’ mission, Arshel Akhter, stated that using their bicycles, the members of the biking neighborhood are delivering ready meals, medicines, greens, fruits, groceries and different important gadgets to these in want with out charging something for supply.
“Through on-line mode or by making money funds, the beneficiaries are paying for his or her required gadgets and our volunteers are delivering the necessities on the doorsteps of the individuals or on the Covid Care Centres,” Akhter informed IANS.
He said the volunteers are delivering the goods maintaining all the Covid protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) during non-curfew hours.
According to Akhter, who was named ‘Bicycle Mayor’, an honourary position conferred by the Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS, the Relief Riders mission currently has 16 volunteers in different parts of Guwahati and the numbers are increasing since the mission was launched on May 17.
The volunteers are aged between 22 and 59 years, who are delivering the essential items within a radius of 3 km from their respective homes.
He said the Relief Riders mission was started in Guwahati following the footsteps of Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur and a few other cities, where the cycling community got together to help the people in need.
Bikash Doley, an entrepreneur and a volunteer for the Relief Riders mission, said that the Bengaluru team had guided them to devise a simplified process to operate the entire scheme.
“We have a few helpline numbers where people can call to place their orders. Once we get the orders, we post them in our internal group alerting the rider staying nearest to the beneficiary.
“We try to keep all transactions contact less by encouraging digital modes of payment. We also follow social distancing measures, personal hygiene and wearing of masks etc.,” Doley stated.
Another volunteer, Siddharth Bhattaroy, stated that also they are saving gasoline, defending the surroundings and stopping carbon dioxide emissions by utilizing bicycles, which may additionally move although slim lanes and by-lanes with ease.
Cycling fanatic Ripunjoy Gogoi stated that if a medication or some important good isn’t out there close to the requester’s place, the group types a relay group to ship the merchandise to the involved citizen.
The senior most Relief Rider member, Gautam Choudhury, stated that the volunteers’ energy is rising every day and so they anticipate extra individuals to hitch their mission to achieve out to extra needy individuals.
Meanwhile, ‘World Bicycle Day’ could be noticed on June 3 by quite a few occasions. The Guwahati Active Mobility Forum would organise some competitions for individuals of various age teams on the event.
Akhter stated the UN in 2018 had declared June 3 because the ‘World Bicycle Day’.
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