Cycle rally by NCC cadets for environment awareness

ALLAHABAD:To spread mass awareness about environment, the naval cadets of the NCCorganised a cycle rally in the city, on Monday. The rally and street plays arebeing observed in the state from September 14 to 20 under the aegis of UP NCCDirectorate, Lucknow.The cycle rally was flagged off by Lt. Cdr.Pramod Dutta of Indian Navy. More than two hundred cadets of AllahabadUniversity, ECC and a local school took part in the rally which started from AllSaints Cathedral, Civil Lines and passed through various routes and localities.The rally was led by chief petty officer of Indian Navy, Parashuram Singh.On the occasion, university cadets also presented a street play atSubhash crossing. The play depicted the importance of trees in human life frombirth to death. Cadets Ankit Vishwakarma, Shefali Sahu, Manish Sonkar, PratibhaSharma, Mukesh Upadhayay, Yogendra Verma, Nishant Bajpai, Prashant Mishra,Abhishek Shukla, Madhukar Mishra etc. took part in the street play. People appreciated the theme ofthe play and efforts of the cadets. The entire programme was conducted under thecommand of Col. Kaushal Chaturvedi, Group Commander of Allahabad NCC GroupHeadquarters. Lt. Cdr. P K Ghosh and Lt. Ajin Ray motivated the cadets on theoccasion.