Now bullock-carts will become steely. Thanks to joint initiative of the Institute For Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG), ministry of steel and Steel Authority of India (SAIL), steel bullock-carts would soon roll on the rural roads of Bihar and Jharkhand.
The steel minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, would distribute 200 steel bullock-carts each among the farmers of Bihar and Jharkhand.
The steel bullock carts will have wheels with tyres and will be much lighter 220 to 250 kilo than traditional wooden bullock-carts, which weigh between 500 and 750 kilo. Each steel bullock-carts would cost Rs 15,000, almost the same price as the wooden one. Thus the total cost of 400 bullock-carts would be Rs 60 lakh.