{"id":1805,"date":"2019-06-21T04:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:58:20","slug":"june-3-is-celebrated-as-the-world-bicycle-day-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/june-3-is-celebrated-as-the-world-bicycle-day-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"June 3 is celebrated as the World Bicycle Day across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn April 2018, the&nbsp;<strong>United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)<\/strong>&nbsp;declared&nbsp;<strong>3 June<\/strong>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<strong>International World Bicycle Day.&nbsp;<\/strong>The\nresolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes the uniqueness, longevity, and\nversatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that\nit is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable\nmeans of transportation.<br>\n2019 will be the second year when it will be\ncelebrated after the UN General Assembly declared it in 2018 to acknowledge the\nuniqueness, longevity and the importance of the bicycle which is a simple,\naffordable, reliable and an environmentally friendly mode of\ntransportation.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Aim:<\/strong><br>\nThe day aims to promote the<strong>&nbsp;use of bicycles&nbsp;<\/strong>as\na means of<strong>&nbsp;fostering\nsustainable development,&nbsp;<\/strong>strengthening education,\nincluding physical education, for children and young people, promoting health\nand tolerance, preventing disease, mutual understanding and respect,\nfacilitating social inclusion and a culture of peace.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>World\nBicycle Day in India:<\/strong><br>\nIn India,&nbsp;<strong>Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu&nbsp;<\/strong>had\nflagged off a cycling rally in Connaught Place in Delhi on the occasion of World\nBicycle Day. It was also celebrated by cyclists in many other cities like\nBengaluru and Mumbai.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2018, the&nbsp;United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)&nbsp;declared&nbsp;3 June&nbsp;as&nbsp;International World Bicycle Day.&nbsp;The resolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes the uniqueness, longevity, and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation. 2019 will be the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}