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Mixed experienceAn easybike charging shop owner in Jhenaidah, in a Daily Sangram report

A self-built rig charging easybikes for 110,000 taka, and still no income figure

After two unpaid years learning at an electricity office, he assembled a charge controller, DC motor, dynamo and circuits of his own to charge easybikes. Getting it working cost 110,000 taka.

This young man in Kaliganj, Jhenaidah, left school after class seven and worked two years as a casual hand at the Kaliganj electricity office, where there was no monthly salary and he lived on what customers paid him for line repairs. About eighteen months before the report he quit after being badly treated by an official and began trying to generate electricity himself. At his shop at Kolahata Mor in Kaliganj town he assembled a charge controller, two radars, a DC motor, a dynamo, several pulleys and two circuits he built himself, and used the rig to charge easybikes; the parts took him to Dhaka, Chattogram and elsewhere, and getting it working cost 110,000 taka. In his words: "The easybike charging now runs on electricity produced with my own technology, without using any fuel at all." An easybike driver said he had been charging there every night for a week and at lower cost. What he charges per vehicle, how many come in a day and what he earns are nowhere in the report.

Lessons

  1. 1.Hands-on electrical work, not money, was the qualification that let him enter the charging business
  2. 2.Over a lakh of taka went in before the report, which still describes only a handful of customers: the earnings were unproven at that point

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