Engineering students’ Vidisha-based waste management startup collects 15 tons of scrap in four months

Reading about and inspired by some of the startup stories featured by YourStory, a bunch of engineering students from Vidisha often dreamed about executing a great business idea of their own some day. After much thinking, they came across one of the most basic civic problems in India: disposal and recycling of scrap and junk. When they found more like-minded people to join the bandwagon, they knew BhangaarChand was destined to be.

“Waste may be useless for others but for us it is a scope for the ‘Renaissance’ of
the new product” – goes the core philosophy of Vidisha-based BhangaarChand. It is a waste management business that collects scrap or solid waste through a toll-free number (currently only for Vidisha) or by website at the customers’ preferred time and location. Soon they are also going to launch their Android app.

Cofounder Surya Pratap Singh says, “In the middle of the third year of college, we decided that we wanted to bring the waste management sector on an online platform and bring some professionalism into the sector. After planning rigorously for over two months, we launched our portal, www.bhangaarchand.com, on March 14 this year”. He and cofounder Shashank Sharma are final year students of BE Electronics at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, which has churned out the likes of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi.

Read more here:  http://yourstory.com/2015/09/bhangaarchand/ 





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