To commemorate India MS Day, A Bike Rally was organised on Sunday, 3rd February 2019. Bikers, each group having about 50 Bikers were flagged off from three different locations in Pune.

Sarasbaug – MSP – Jyoti Ronghe/ Anjali Vyas
Sambhaji Park – MSP – Gayatrie Joshi
Kalyani Nagar – MSP- Anjali Gijare/ Rohit Nigade

The flagging off was done by MSPs at all three locations. Each Biker group travelled about 12 Kms and reached final destination Bund Garden around 10 am.

In all, there were about 200 participants at Bund Garden which included 150 bikers (Over 120 bikers from BNY Mellon) committee members, staff members, BNY Mellon Volunteers, MSPs and caregivers.

At Bund Garden, committee members welcomed all the Bikers and thanked them for their enthusiastic participation. Group photo session with all bikers wearing bandanas was followed by the release of 500 orange colour balloons.

Later all participants were requested to move on to Sr. Citizen Club Hall at Bund Garden. Our founder Chairperson Mrs Mini Grant welcomed all the participants. Mr Firoz Khoja our Admin. Officer sang a Bhakti Geet to commence the program. Mrs Jyoti Ronghe, Ms Gayatri Joshi and Ms Anjali Vyas our very active committee members and MS Persons shared their views on MS ailment and explained to the audience how they are keeping themselves happy in spite of this ailment and fighting the disease.

This was followed by a “Lavani folk dance” by Meera Dalvi and her troupe who had been deputed by Dr Panpatil and his team from I&B Ministry Pune. They enthralled the audience for about 45 minutes with their lively performance.

Gifts were handed over to the performers as a token of appreciation

The event ended at about 12 noon with the distribution of snacks and Lemon Lassi to all the participants present.