Jugaad Innovation - Jugaad King

Railway engineers have walled off some doors of a train to create room for extra electric motors - a clever and cost-effective improvisation that has helped boost the train’s power. As people walked towards a slow local for Borivali on Churchgate’s platform number one on Tuesday afternoon, they grappled with a never-seen-before oddity: almost every second coach of the train had only two sets of doors instead of the usual three. While many commuters dismissed the anomaly as a new coach design, it was the result of Mumbai’s famed concept of jugaad. Railway engineers have walled off the doors, also referred to as gangways, to create room for extra electric motors - a clever and cost-effective improvisation that has helped boost the train’s power. So now, the sealed areas of coaches 2, 5, 8 and 11 look like pantry cars of a Rajdhani from the outside. Over the years, similar tweaks (or acts of jugaad) have become a central feature of the city’s suburban train network. One of the mo