Watch: Engineering students install load bearing portable tyre in cart to reduce burden on bulls, netizens hail innovation

Chandigarh, July 16

A photo of an innovative bullock cart, installed with an extra tyre in front side between load bearing arms, is doing the rounds on social media. The idea behind the manipulations made in the cart is meant to withstand extra load of cane and other agricultural products as agrarian belt usually use animals to bear such loads while transporting their crops.

The idea has been materialised by a group of engineering students from the Rajarambapu Institute of Technology (RIT) in Maharashtra’s Sangli district.

The extra tyre reduces the weight that falls on bulls and make it easy for them to pull the loaded cart. The makers have named the load bearer ‘Saarthi’. The makers claim that the material used in making the device has been used to make if efficient to carry load between 2 to 3 tonnes, keeping in mind small farmers who carry their cane in sugar factories by carts.

As per a report of ABP Majha, the final-year studentsof RIT received a funding of Rs 1000 to develop the device further and file a patent application.

IAS officer Awanish Sharan shared a photograph of the innovation on his Twitter account.

The detailed explainer of the device has also been shared on a page Paddhari updates, with people involved in developing the gadget explaining it functioning and motive behind making it.