The Great Indian JUGAAD

The Great Indian JUGAAD

Cabin of jugaad

Jugaad is a vehicle assembled by carpenters and low skilled people much like what the Flintstones did for their cars.  Sometimes, improvised in every feature, might combine a bus chassis with a tractor engine. But the basic form of the vehicle is a cart fitted out with a diesel pump used as an engine.  A big rod with a wheel at the end serves as the steering column. There are no gears and a basic break mechanism stops the wheel when needed.  The brakes fail more than they work requiring its passengers to jump off the moving vehicle to place stones or blocks in front of the wheels.  Since these vehicles operate in the rural parts of India there are no registration fee or insurance or emissions inspections.  There are thousands of Jugaad’s on rural roads of India and despite the issues of road worthiness; these vehicles reflect the true spirit of innovation in rural India”. Recently has become a touchstone of design thinking and a business buzzword applied to architecture, design or work. You hear people whispering this word at every corner, they are in my dictionary too !!

School Bus Jugaad

Kuch JUGAAD kar do? 

Bhai JUGAAD ho gaya ? Kaha se JUGAAD keya ?

 

Once I asked a Jugaad driver (shown in 1st photo) in Sukhtal interior of Uttar Pradesh that, “How he JUGAAD his jugaad”?

So the story is here !! He brought his jugaad from Haryana at forty five thousand as it is not banned there. His four friends carried it through rough terrains to avoid National Highways and Police chowkis.  They drove it for 600 km from Haryana to UP via Punjab and Delhi. They ran through jungles and canals. Still they pay total 15000 to foresst officers and rural police. Now it is a School Bus. You can see many variant of Jugaad like as an Ambulance, buses, truck variant and a hearse (A vehicle for carrying a coffin).

People's Vehicle