Chennai: a woman who is bound by a wheelchair is enough to work through most tasks except one: cooking.
The stove in the clamps of the kitchen is a few inches higher than the wheelchair level.
The man who fixed this problem for him was Bhargav Sundaram, founder of 55 years Callidai Motor Works, a company, for the past 23 years, has developed a breakthrough solution for people with disabilities.
Callidai makes the woman operated with a battery, a motorized wheelchair that can lift it to the level of the stove.
Callidai succeeded from small manufacturing facilities located between beautiful rice fields and mango gardens in Vaniamallee village in Gummidipoondi, with a team of 35 – the majority of them disabled.
It shuffles products for around 30,000 people with various forms of defects.
Callidai’s USP is located on customization that goes into each product – an elevator with a bridge installed for seniors with Parkinson’s to enter his house; Lift a wheelchair with a road to help old passengers or flaws into vans; Lift the hydrotherapy pool for patients with spinal injury.
“The possibility is not limited,” Sundaram said.
Callidai has supplied the original wheelchair lifts for vehicles with floors tackled with 250 users throughout India.
Other wheelchairs include front-wheel drive variants for roads and rough surfaces that can move on 8kmph and include 15 km with stretching.
This is useful for those who might want to stop by their neighborhood stores or parks.
The latest is a trolley operated with Android, Bluetooth enables armed with fish eye cameras, speakers and mobile standings, which can be used to take food and medicines for patients in quarantine.
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Sundaram Iyer – The man behind Iconic Enfield India – Bhargav started Callidai in 1998, chasing his love for the car.
He launched an electric bicycle sold with half the cost of moped.
Bhargav employees, who come to work on pedicab becak hands, suggest they use the same mechanism to restore wheelchairs.
“I was immediately sold on the idea,” he said.
Since then, he, together with his wife Priya Bhargav, has developed 40 powerful wheelchair models.
A little more than 2% of the Indian population are disabled.
The 2020 report by the World Bank said that every year the accident leaves around 7.5 lakh which is disabled for life.
Callidai wheelchair price `6,000 to` 2.5 lakh each, and the price of a wheelchair lift starts at RS1.9 Lakh.
“The market for mobility solutions for disabled people is very large, but those who need it and are also able to buy it very small,” he said.
Bhargav runs the trust of a wheelchair India, a charity where it gives 150 wheelchairs powered around 20% of the cost of each year.
In collaborative efforts with the government to realize Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan, (an india campaign that is accessible), Callidai Motor Works has created a wheelchair lift for the bus.
It has installed a lift device at ten train stations between Chennai and Delhi.