THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Women of Vattiyoorkavu now have a new option for evening activities – cycling – as free cycling training will be arranged in the constituency for them.<\/p>\n
The \u2018She Cycling\u2019 programme, inaugurated by MLA V K Prasanth on Monday, will provide a five-day free cycling training for women and girls of the locality. The training is being carried out by the Indus Cycling Embassy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe women and children who have gathered here for the training are the brand ambassadors of this programme,\u201d MLA V K Prasanth said in his inaugural address. As part of this, a counselling programme will also be implemented to reduce people\u2019s mental stress, he said at the Kowdiar Pipeline Road Junction. <\/p>\n
The MLA also added that a senior citizens\u2019 corner and children\u2019s park will be set up on the Pipeline Road as part of city beautification activities.<\/p>\n
The state coordinator of the She Cycling Programme, Prakash P Gopinath, stated that training will be given in two batches in the evening. \u201cWe are also planning to launch a cycling academy to provide comprehensive training for the interested,\u201d he told the TNIE.<\/p>\n
A railway officer-turned-full-time cycling enthusiast, Prakash, also added that training will be given to each person for five days. <\/p>\n
He is also the Bicycle Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram city, a position designated by the Amsterdam-based global NGO BYCS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Women of Vattiyoorkavu now have a new option for evening activities – cycling – as free cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,49823,784,85,49824],"class_list":["post-61707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycle","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-vattiyoorkavu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}