<p>A 10-member team of retired military officers on Tuesday left for the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj on bicycles as part of an awareness campaign on plastic-free Ganga.</p>
<p>Under the Atulya Ganga Abhiyan, the Army veterans will cover 1,150 km in 11 days by bicycle via Devprayag, Rishikesh, Narora and Kanpur.</p>
<p>The team was flagged off from Ujeli in Uttarkashi by Col Anshuman Bhadauria, Principal of Nehru Mountaineering Institute.</p>
<p>Vishnu Semwal, coordinator of the campaign, said their campaign will run till January 31.</p>
<p>Lieutenant Colonel Hem Lohumi, founder-member of Atulya Ganga Abhiyan, said that retired military officers have been running this campaign for the last several years.</p>
<p>They have walked 5,525 km and covered 3,000 km by cycling to raise awareness on clean Ganga, he said.</p>
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