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70-Yr-Old Creates Jeep Costing Rs 30,000
Indraprakash Bhargav's creation was cobbled together using material that cost Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000. He has to his credit minor inventions relating to automobiles but laments that neither the government nor others paid any attention to them.
'If a company goes in for commercial production then the cost will be between Rs 30,000-Rs 35,000. India has a colossal number of lower middle-class people and each one of them dreams of owning a car,' Mr Bhargav, who exhibited his vehicle recently, told UNI.
He is working on a technique to make the jeep battery-operated so that the cost per km drops to Re 0.25. Mr Bhargav is yet to patent his jeep but is willing to divulge its secrets for free if Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata or some other industrialist evinces interest.
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