- Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on June 3, 2019 flagged off the three women bikers who have embarked on a 25,000 km long journey covering 25 nations to spread awareness on the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign and women empowerment. The journey started in Lucknow on World Bicycle Day.
- Known as Biking Queens, will complete it’s travel of more than 25 thousand kilometers in almost 3 months and the journey will end in Spain on 15th August, the Independence Day.
- Sarika Mehta of Surat is the founder of ‘Biking Queen’ and the members of the biking group are – Dr Sarita Mehta, Jinal Shah and Rutal Patel.
- During this three month long biking trip the squad will travel three continents Asia, Europe and Africa.
- The objective of their trip is to spread the message of ‘nari gaurav’ (women pride) across the world.