Pune, September 21 Various civic groups in association with the Pune Municipal Corporation will be conducting a car free day on Monday by organising a bicycle rally in order to give due recognition to non-motorised transport on the crowded city roads. The World Car Free day is celebrated in many cities throughout the world and it would be started as a symbolic gesture in the city on Monday. The PMC has extended its support to the civic organisations in celebrating the World Car Free day. Social activist Sujit Patwardhan said they are not expecting disapperance of cars on the streets on the day, but hoping a beginning of discussion on giving due respect to non-motorised transport in the city while constructing infrastructure for the purpose. The bicycle rally will begin at 7.30 am from four different locations of Ozone in Aundh, near GPO in Camp, Karve statue in Kothrud and Shaniwarwada. All the four groups of cyclists will converge at Sambhaji Park on Jangli Maharaj Road at 9.30 am. The campaign for promoting non-motorised transport has picked up with the civic administration making required provisions of footpaths and cycle tracks in the road development work under JNNURM. The PMC is to construct around 117-km long cycle track and Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi, an avid cyclist, have been promoting it by declaring every Tuesday as the cycle day at the civic headquarters. However, the initiative has died down with not many following the diktat. The PMC, along with various social organisations, is also planning a "hire and ride" cycle programme for Pune on the lines of that in Paris.