Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and former India football captain Baichung Bhutia flagged off the Delhi leg of Op-Blue Freedom on August 21, 2019.
- After the success of the Chandigarh leg, the group of eight veterans, including from the elite special forces of PARA regiment and MARCO, dived at SPM Swimming Pool Complex in Delhi.
About Op-Blue Freedom
- Op-Blue Freedom is an initiative in which a group of armed forces veterans train sports enthusiasts in survival training and self-defence.
- It is a nation-wide adaptive scuba diving programme for people with disabilities as well as the able bodied.
- The program aims to train adventure enthusiasts in special forces skills like survival techniques, emergency first response skills, unarmed combat, endurance and fitness.
