Rising pollution and the determination to do something about it, inspired an innovator to create a bicycle bus powered by human energy. He also used scrap – tin sheets, rods and unused bicycle parts – to create it.

Milind Kulkarni, 51, a resident of Kothrud, spent R1.25 lakh to make the bicycle bus in a month. He has a degree in physics and runs his own company, Ensemble Systems, that manufactures solar energy products. He had earlier filed some six patents for his products. Kulkarni claimed the concept for the bicycle bus came to him when he saw a similar picture in a children's book when he was in class V. Such bicycle buses are used by kids to go to school in the Netherlands.