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Trivandrum December 6, 2011 – : Technopark Bicycle Club was launched by the Honourable Kerala Chief Minister Mr.Oommen Chandy today. In all , 55 cycles in blue and white which is sponsored by Allianz were flagged off from Thejaswini building by the Chief Minister at 5 pm.
The ‘Why Not Cycle for a Green Environment?’ initiative was conceptualized by Allianz, Technopark and Technoparktoday.com team after taking into consideration the parking woes, pollution, traffic congestion and the sedentary life faced by employees of the Technopark.
How it works:
Athi’s bicycle club with its unique sms-based cycle sharing scheme has been roped in to maintain and service the cycles. Any employee at Technopark can register themselves for free and avail the cycles at a nominal hourly rental of Rs 2. There are cycles for both men and women and five racks with 10-12 cycles each will be parked across the campus for easy access. “I hope that employees of Technopark would utilize the services to the maximum and pedal their way to good health and eco-sensibility and also have fun while doing so,†Athirup, the founder of Athi’s Bicycle Club.
“This initiative is targeted at making it easier to travel between buildings within the campus. At Allianz, with over 1,100Â IT/ITeS employees and offices spread across four buildings, cycling between facilities will make life happier and more productive “, says Amit Passi, Director and Head of BP, at Allianz.
Need of the hour:
Parking is an all-day problem at the IT Park. Running errands like going to the bank or for lunch outside the campus after having found a plush spot is a harrowing proposition – someone is always waiting in the wings to take your parking space. What Allianz hopes to achieve by introducing cycles is not just to alleviate parking woes but to also promote health and a pollution-free lifestyle inside Technopark.“With this initiative we will take one more step to make our campus greener and decongest the park. We strongly believe that this is a great step that throws light to the techies for adopting eco- friendly measures at various aspects of their lives, insurmountable opportunities thereby giving one aspect of nature a universal grin,†said Girish Babu recently appointed CEO of Technopark.
We thanks Allianz for implementing the long cherished dream of techies and Technopark authorities for sharing the dream,  Athriup’s Bicycle club for agreeing to take on the project and the many CEO’s and employees in the campus for making the event successful.
From today onwards, any Technopark Employee can make use of this bicycles for commuting inside the Technopark Campus. Â Go Green, be Healthy, and Why Not Cycle for a Green Planet?
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Thanks Allianz, technoparktoday.com and Technopark & Aathis bicycle Club for making it a reality. this is a long cherished dream for us…hats off you people…and everyone behind it
What a wonderful concept… This is another green revolution. hats off everybody who is the part of this great movement..
Congratulations techies…now we are GREEN…
One of the biggest events in technopark so far, and our CM inaugurated by pedaling the bicycle, Really great beloved CM, we love you and thanks for your support and kind words to us.
thanks to everyone who made this happen. Thanks to Allianz for leading from the front and providing the cycles, racks and beautiful banners. thanks to technoprktoday.com for the initiative and support, publicity, thanks technopark for providing the space, infrastructure, and above all, thanks to our dearest CM, who came for this function even if he is busy with so many crucial things, and he inaugurated by pedaling the cycle, he leaded by example. and we techies really love him and respect him for what he did. It was a wonderful day in the history of technopark.
I think AAthis bicycle club took a big pain to implement and maintain this. they are running the show. Salute to those guys for maintaining such a becutiful concept and working towards to implement it. We need to give support to this mission by keeping all the instructions and ensuring the maximum participation. please contribute to this great movement. Im really happy to see so many good changes are happening to technopark. thanks Allianz and Technoparktoday.com.
Thanks Athi, Allianz, Technopark and TechnoparkToday for this green initiative….
what is the procedure to make use of it? Where to register, whom to send sms…?
It was a good launch..To watch the videos and see CM in action….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-YbPcuQIY
Few More…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgT2i19wEZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJS5wS0cFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1f3e8Or_0U
Great initiative towards an eco friendly concept, but there is another great benefit from this, from now onward the life style related health problems among the IT professionals will be down , well at least in our Technopark.
Other IT parks should take this as a model….
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article2693940.ece
Its gud, but its difficult to send messages everyday to get unlocking code.. Make it accessible to everyone within the campus without any conditions..
Then will you pay for the maintenance of the cycles and related equipment? It is very easy to send an SMS may cost you 50 Paisa. It is always better than catching an auto or walking a long distance. sending SMS is a measure to track who is using the cycles. if there are no such measures the cycle club will be closed within weeks.