Red Ribbon Express (RRE), a seven-coach train, aimed at creating AIDS awareness across the country, is scheduled to arrive at Howrah station on 24 March. A free HIV detection camp will be organised in one of the coaches. Three coaches of the train have been allocated to hold exhibitions to spread AIDS awareness. Seminars and training will also be conducted for volunteers in the remaining coaches. These volunteers will be trained in groups with each group comprising of ten members, mostly women and youth. The volunteers will be selected by the local panchayat and municipal bodies. West Bengal AIDS Prevention and Control Board will engage two more buses to carry forward the message regarding AIDS prevention in the areas within 70 to 75 km from the railway stations of the state where the RRE will halt to disseminate its message. Moreover, a team of ten members will visit the remotest areas with the same purpose. Members of the team will perform dance and drama to make the village dwellers aware of AIDS and ways to prevent it. The express, which had been flagged off by Mrs Sonia Gandhi on 1 December 2007 in New Delhi, reached the state on 18 March this year. Its journey took off from the northern part of the state and halted first at the Alipurduar station. It will reach Howrah station on Monday after halting at New Jalpaiguri, Malda and Katwa stations. RRE will leave the state on 30 March for Orissa. The express will traverse over 9,000 km during the year covering 180 districts across the country and will carry out awareness activities in 40,200 villages. A member of West Bengal AIDS Prevention and Control Board said the express was initiated by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) as a project to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS among people of all sections of society.