Imagine covering a 35-kilometre stretch from home to office every day.

It’s Hyderabad, so traffic is erratic and you could take hours to get to work. An Uber or an Ola with surge pricing could cost you nearly Rs 700 for a one-way trip. And as Hyderabad’s population increases, it will only get tougher to get a seat on a local bus.

Hemanth Jonnalagadda, an International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, alumnus faced the same problem: public transport was taking too long and cabs were exorbitantly priced.