Children celebrate with the Tricolour on the eve of Independence Day and (below) bikers during the rally last year. Picture by UB Photos and file picture

Aug. 14: A Bullet bike tour and a wildlife conservation programme will be held as part of the 66th Independence Day celebration in the city tomorrow.

A city-based socio-cultural organisation, Medansh Entertainment, is holding a Bullet bike tour tomorrow from Panbazar to Deepor Beel where it will organise a programme to inform the participants about various aspects of the Ramsar site.

Till date, around 90 Bullet bikes have registered their names to participate in the programme, which will be organised in association with the Panbazar-based India Club.

Registration is being done both online and offline.

Manjit Hazarika, a member of the organisation, said besides Assam, they have participants from Nagaland and Meghalaya.

“Our aim is to protect our wetlands. Royal Enfield bikers from all over the Northeast will be participating in the peace rally. Heavy-duty bikes of 350cc and 500cc will be participating in the rally,” Hazarika said.

The rally will be flagged off from India Club at Panbazar.

On reaching Deepor Beel, they will felicitate divisional forest officer S.K. Seal Sarma for his conservation efforts. Sarma will then address the gathering about the importance of wetlands in society.

The forest officer will also talk to them about the significant features of Deepor Beel and the rally will return to the club after the programme.

The organisations will felicitate some senior bikers from two city-based Bullet bike clubs — Rhino Riders and Bulls of Assam.

The Rhino Riders recently conducted an expedition to the Kargil War Memorial to pay homage to the soldiers who laid down their lives during the Kargil War in 1999, especially those from the Northeast.

Eighteen members of the club undertook the expedition on 17 motorcycles that was titled “Kargil Martyrs Tribute Ride”.

The Rhino Riders expedition started from Jammu with stops at Patnitop, Srinagar and Drass (worlds 2nd coldest inhabited place) on their way to Kargil.

The expedition proceeded to Leh and rode up to Khardungla Pass, the highest motorable road in the world and down to Manali via Rohtang Pass onward to Ambala Cantonment, finally returning to Guwahati via Delhi, Lucknow, Bareilly Gorakhpur, Darbhangha and Alipurduar.

Hazarika said last time they organised a similar bike rally, 118 participants in 89 bikes took part.

“We have been organising rallies for the last several years during which we have visited places like Nameri and Pobitora,” Hazarika said.

He was hopeful that a few more would register their names before flagging off the rally and the programme would be a success.