Evomo Research & Advancement Pvt. Ltd. is an organization working towards providing an affordable rural transportation solution.
Rural transportation contraption - The Jugaad (Click Image for Video Description)
Roads are the dominant mode of transportation in India today. They carry almost 90 percent of the country’s passenger traffic and 65 percent of its freight.[1]
At the same time there are now more road deaths in India than anywhere else in the world - a man-made epidemic according to a government committee. In 2006 - more than 100,000 people died, and an estimated 2,000,000 were seriously injured. The economic and social costs of these shocking figures are enormous. India loses 3% of its GDP to road crashes every year. Many of the deaths happen in rural areas, and one study found that 70% of families who lose their main wage earner in a traffic accident subsequently fall below the poverty line.[2]
Jugaads or other illegal transportation contraptions are one of the prime movers of both passengers as well as freight in rural India. These contraptions have also led to a number of accidents resulting in deaths[3] to the extent that in October 2010, the High Court of Rajasthan ordered the banning of such contraptions[4].
EVOMO is a designer and manufacturer of the Low cost Rural Utility Vehicle (RUV) that aims at replacing illegal and dangerous transportation contraptions like Jugaads and to be a disruptive intervention in providing transportation solution in rural Areas around the world.
