One wheel. A movement.

Ravi NethaCycling Ambassador & Movement Builder

“One wheel can move a person. A movement can move a city.”
Fit India
Cycling Ambassador — Telangana
Hyderabad Cycling Revolution
Co-Founder
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Ravi Netha with his road bicycle in front of Charminar, Hyderabad
Photograph · @ravi_revolution

How it started

A death on a road without a cycle lane.

Media reported

31 December 2021 — 1 January 2022

A cyclist was killed. The city's riders stopped asking politely.

  1. On 31 December 2021, around 5.45 am near the Botanical Garden in Gachibowli — opposite the Pala Pitta cycling park, on a busy road with no cycle lane — a car hit two cyclists from behind.

  2. Nithin Agarwal suffered critical head injuries and died on 1 January 2022. His riding partner Sanjeet Srivastava survived with minor injuries.

  3. Police recorded the driver's blood alcohol concentration at 186 mg, against a permissible limit under 30 mg. He was booked for negligent driving and drunk driving.

  4. Hyderabad's cycling community gathered at KBR Park on 9 January 2022 to remind motorists that cyclists share the road — the protest that hardened into the #WeTooShareTheRoad campaign.

The News Minute, 1 Jan 2022 TOI, 2022 — 'We own the road too'

Wheel of the journey

One rider at the hub. Seven years around the rim.

Select a year on the rim. Each entry separates what Ravi did from what the wider community achieved, and carries the label of the source it comes from.

FitnessCommunityServiceMobilitySafetyYouthRaviTHE HUB2020202120222022–232023202420252026
Official/Institutional

Fit India Cycling Ambassador, Sundays on Cycle, Street Audit India

IIT Hyderabad hosts Sundays on Cycle with over 1,000 participants, and cyclists launch Street Audit India to document street conditions and push for safer roads and a connected cycling network.

Telangana Today's coverage of the IIT Hyderabad event identifies Ravi Netha as a Fit India brand ambassador; TOI reports the Street Audit India launch.

Telangana Today, 2026 — Sundays on Cycle at IIT Hyderabad

Spoke 01

Fitness

Cycling as everyday health, not a weekend hobby — the Fit India idea carried to the street.

Spoke 02

Community

Rider groups, weekend rides and volunteers that turn strangers into a network.

Spoke 03

Service

Relief Riders and Project Diya: two wheels used for medicines, essentials and blood support.

Spoke 04

Mobility

Cycling tracks, connected networks and active mobility as transport policy.

Spoke 05

Safety

#WeTooShareTheRoad, street audits and the right to arrive alive.

Spoke 06

Youth

Bicycles and safe routes for students, especially girls, so mobility starts early.

About

A cyclist who kept turning up.

Ravi Netha is a Hyderabad-based cycling advocate. What began as riding with a handful of people became a citywide effort to make cycling normal — safe enough for a student, useful enough for a commuter, visible enough for a government department.

His work sits at the intersection of fitness, road safety and civic engagement: helping organise community rides and campaigns, showing up in stakeholder meetings on cycling infrastructure, and turning the bicycle into a tool for service during crises.

Throughout this site, collective achievements of Hyderabad Cycling Revolution and Relief Riders are described as collective. Ravi-specific roles are stated only where a public source names him.

Fit India

Cycling Ambassador — Telangana.

Official/Institutional

In 2026, IIT Hyderabad hosted a Sundays on Cycle edition that drew more than 1,000 participants. Coverage of the event identifies Ravi Netha as a Fit India brand ambassador, connecting the national Fit India push to Hyderabad's existing rider community.

The ambassadorial role is about repetition rather than spectacle: Sunday rides, campus engagement, and framing cycling as everyday fitness for students and working adults.

Telangana Today, 2026
Fit India cycling participants assembled for a public ride
Image: PIB (Government of India)
Riders at a Fit India cycling event
Image: PIB (Government of India)

Hyderabad Cycling Revolution

A rider group that learned to talk to a city.

HCR started around 2020 as a community of riders and grew into an advocacy platform: weekend rides, campaigns, annual reporting, and sustained engagement with the agencies that build and maintain roads.

In 2022, the #WeTooShareTheRoad campaign put road safety at the centre — arguing that cyclists and pedestrians are road users, not obstacles. The Times of India's 2022 coverage of the cyclists' campaign to reclaim roads identifies Ravi Netha as event coordinator.

HCR material identifies Ravi Netha and Anjani TSN as HCR Core Team. Hyderabad Mail's 2024 feature describes Ravi as a co-founder and core member.

TOI, 2022 Hyderabad Mail HCR links
Media reported

Event coordinator, 2022 road-reclaim campaign

HCR reported

Core Team (with Anjani TSN)

Media reported

Co-founder & core member (2024 feature)

The campaign, version by version

One movement, released in versions.

  1. 1.0

    2020–21

    Ride, relief and Project Diya

    Weekend rides become a service network: Relief Riders carry medicines and essentials through the pandemic, while Project Diya collects pre-used bicycles, repairs them and donates them to people who need transport.

    Media reportedANI, 2021 — Project Diya cycle donations

  2. 2.0

    2022

    #WeTooShareTheRoad

    After Nithin Agarwal's death, riders take a public position on road safety: cyclists and pedestrians are road users, not obstacles. TOI's coverage of the campaign names Ravi Netha as event coordinator.

    Media reportedTOI, 2022 — City cyclists plan revolution

  3. 3.0

    2023

    Active mobility and public transport

    The campaign widens beyond cycling: alongside cyclists and pedestrians, it advocates public transport as part of an active-mobility city — the same year as sustained engagement on the 21 km ORR cycling track.

    Media reportedTelangana Today, 2023 — HCR 3.0

  4. 4.0

    2024

    Heritage rides and the Musi

    Weekend rides gather at a historic place each week; Musi River Community Engagement rides pair riders and students with heritage experts, supported by GHMC, and lead into the 15 August Freedom Ride.

    Media reportedHumans of Hyderabad — Musi river rides

  5. 5.0

    2026

    Street Audit India and Fit India

    Advocacy becomes documentation with the launch of Street Audit India, while Sundays on Cycle at IIT Hyderabad draws over 1,000 participants under the Fit India banner.

    Official/InstitutionalTelangana Today, 2026 — Sundays on Cycle

Relief Riders & Project Diya

When the city stopped, the bicycles didn't.

During the pandemic, riders organised as Relief Riders — carrying medicines and essentials, coordinating requests, and reaching places where vehicles were slow or unavailable. Project Diya extended that effort into community support beyond emergency relief.

The work continued past the crisis: health drives and blood-donation support coordinated through the same rider network in 2023.

HCR reported

HCR's 2021 annual report records Ravi as a lead volunteer on Project Diya and describes him as a pillar of the cycling and community network. Relief and blood-support outcomes are collective achievements of the rider network, not individual claims.

HCR Annual Report 2021 HCR team note, 2022

Cycling infrastructure & active mobility

21 kilometres, and the argument for a network.

Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road cycling track — including a solar-panelled stretch — became a reference point for what dedicated cycling infrastructure can look like in India, and a live case study in maintenance, access and connectivity.

HCR's account of that history records Core Team engagement across HMDA, HGCL, GHMC and MAUD, and the use of the 6E framework (education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement, evaluation and equity) to structure the ask.

From 2024, the agenda widened to active mobility as transport policy: connected routes, first-and-last-mile cycling, and sustainability rather than one showpiece track.

HCR — ORR cycling track history

HMDA / HGCL

Track planning, upkeep and access on the ORR corridor.

GHMC

City street conditions, junctions and everyday rider safety.

MAUD

Policy framing for cycling within urban development.

6E framework

Education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement, evaluation, equity.

Source label: HCR reported — stakeholder engagement as documented by HCR.

Street Audit India

Evidence before opinion.

In 2026, Hyderabad's cyclists launched Street Audit India: a structured way to document street conditions — footpaths, junctions, lighting, encroachments, cycling space — and take that record to the agencies responsible.

It reframes advocacy as documentation. Instead of arguing about whether a road is unsafe, the audit shows where and how, and what a fix would look like.

Media reported

The Times of India reports the launch of Street Audit India by Hyderabad cyclists to promote safer roads. Alongside it, advocacy continues for a connected city cycling network rather than isolated stretches.

TOI, 2026 — Street Audit India

What gets audited

Street Audit | Civic Sense — nine things we document.

  • Footpath encroachment & blocked walking space
  • Blinding high-beams & vehicle lighting issues
  • Missing or broken public transit infrastructure
  • Clogged drains & civic sense failures (plastic/garbage)
  • Potholes & dangerous road surfaces
  • Unsafe pedestrian crossings
  • Blocked or missing cycling infrastructure
  • Streetlight dark spots
  • Choked nalas & dying lakes (stormwater network failure)
X / @StreetAuditIndFollow #StreetAuditIndia on WhatsApp

Youth mobility

228 bicycles, and who gets to ride.

Mobility decides who can reach a school, a coaching class, a job interview. Distributing bicycles to students — with a deliberate focus on girl students — is the most direct version of that argument.

Bicycle distribution figures below come from Ravi's public LinkedIn profile. They are presented as self-reported and have not been independently audited.

Public Profile

228

Bicycles distributed

150+

Girl students among recipients

Public / self-reported figures from Ravi's LinkedIn profile — not independently audited.

LinkedIn profile

Environment & heritage

The Musi, and the city around it.

From 2024, the community's work extended to sustainability and heritage. Under the Hyderabad Cycling Revolution 4.0 campaign, riders gathered each weekend at a historic place in the city; the Musi River Community Engagement rides paired riders and students with heritage experts — standing under a 1908 tamarind tree near Osmania General Hospital that once sheltered 150 people during the floods.

The rides ran alongside the Musi river rejuvenation effort, with support from GHMC, and fed into the 15 August Freedom Ride. Cycling is the connective tissue: a low-emission way to move through a city while paying attention to what is being lost or restored in it.

Humans of Hyderabad — Musi rides TOI, 2024 — Musi restoration Deccan Chronicle — Musi revamp TOI, 2024 — Freedom Ride
A large group of riders setting off together on a shaded city cycling track
Photograph · @ravi_revolution

Media & evidence

Every claim, traceable.

Every section on this page traces back to one of these. Grouped by theme, labelled by the kind of source they come from.

Contact

Rides, road safety, schools, policy — reach out.

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© 2026 Ravi Netha. Public portfolio.

Images are used from public sources with visible credits. Collective achievements are attributed to Hyderabad Cycling Revolution and Relief Riders; individual roles are stated only where a public source names Ravi.