Overview
- Two simultaneous teams will start from Lakhpat Fort in Gujarat and Bakkhali in West Bengal, converging in Kochi on February 22.
- About 130 CISF personnel, including 65 women, will ride as part of a visible push to encourage female recruitment.
- Cyclists will halt overnight in more than 50 villages to engage fisherfolk on narcotics, arms and human-trafficking threats and on reporting suspicious activity.
- Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai will flag off the event virtually from New Delhi’s Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on January 28.
- The initiative commemorates 150 years of 'Vande Mataram' under the theme 'Secure Coast, Prosperous India' and signals an ambition to extend CISF port security beyond the 12 major ports it currently guards.