CEPT students’ vendor-friendly cart comes with a host of facilities including solar lamps. It costs between Rs6k and Rs15k.
Cramped vegetable-carts kept in the open on roadside on a sunny day many a times lead to wastage of fresh vegetables and loss of money for the vendors. To worsen the situation, the vendors also need to carry weighing machines, drinking water and water to sprinkle on the vegetables — all these make the cart more congested.
But now a design by four students of Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University will mostly solve the problems the vegetable vendors face in their day-to-day businesses. They have designed a cart that is vendor-friendly in many ways.
The students — Ritu Purohit, Priyanka Vora, Seema Juneja and Uday Shukla — worked on a project ‘Revised Vegetable Cart for Vegetable Vendors’ in their second semester of MBA in Technology Management at CEPT University.
The students say the idea was to come up with a design that solves the vegetable vendors’ problems. For the project, the students met both mobile vendors as well as those who do business at one point.
The students learnt that maintaining a wooden base in the cart is not only a problem but also an expensive affair as it requires application of oil on the wooden base to avoid puffiness in it.
“To address this problem, we chose to assemble the cart base from PVC. We also decided to address the problem of cramp area in the cart. We designed the cart with flexible- removable compartments that gives space to keep different veggies,” said Ritu. Seema believes that different compartments not only give separate space but also avoid problems like spillage in the cart.
“This will also help hygiene in the cart. And we have also developed a channel giving 2 degree slope to carry the additional water into a bucket attached to the cart under it. This will help save and re-use water that vendors sprinkle on the veggies to keep them fresh,” said Seema.
Another big problem that vendors faced was harsh sunlight spoiling the vegetables. “So, we designed a shed in a way that checks direct sunlight coming on the cart,” said Priyanka. The cart is designed to carry a load of 250- 300 kg vegetables. They have also made provision for putting solar lamps in the carts.
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