Meet 40-year-old cyclist Sudershan Prasad Vishwakarma Chotikasi from Tenu Mafi village under San Kabeer Nagar of Uttar Pradesh, who has started a mission to create awareness for passage of the Corruption Free Bill 2015 in Parliament.
According to Sudershan, who is a Bcom (finance) graduate, his odyssey started on May 18, 2015 from his native village in Uttar Pradesh on a bicycle hoisting the Indian national flag to gather public support for the anti-graft law. His aim is to complete his India tour expedition in two years and 65 days.
He has planned to cover all districts of India, while on the way he meets people and takes their valuable opinions on the Bill.
The cyclist reached at Kendrapada district collectorate on Monday. After completing the district on the cycle, his aim was to go to Jajpur district and later, he will move to Jharkhand. He used to cover about 160 km in a day. He has already covered 452 districts in 17 States, besides union territories of Dadar Nagar Haveli and Damen.
He covered 75 districts in Utter Pradesh, 13 districts in Uttarakhand, 21 districts in Haryana, 33 districts in Rajsthan, 33 districts in Gujarat, 10 districts in Himachal, 51 districts in Madhya Pradesh, 36 districts in Maharastra, 27 districts in Chhattisgarh, 10 districts in Telengana, two districts in Goa, 30 districts in Karnataka, 14 districts in Kerala, one district in Pondicherry, 32 districts in Tamil Nadu and 14 districts in Andhra radish and 22 districts in Odisha.
If the Corruption Free Bill is passed, then the country would develop and it would pave way for a better future for rural pockets. Apart from this, crime would reduce in the country. Due to corruption, education and cultural values have gone downwards, said Sudershan.
Till date, the people whom he questioned on the bill, about 55 per cent of them supported the law. About 6.5 lakh people have already been attached with him supporting his mission on creating public awareness on the Bill through social media.
According to the cyclist, when he started the mission, it seemed a daunting task for him. But gradually, things began to fall in place. So far he has covered a distance of 60,875 km.
Kendrapada Sub Collector Kanhu Charan Dhir said the mission that the youth has taken is praiseworthy.