Protocol 01 / Response
A resolved pothole in 24 to 48 hours
We don't wait for permission or paperwork. A Shramadaan team is deployed to the spot and the hazard is filled within two days of being reported.
Mission
Safer roads. Responsible citizens. A culture of action.
Shramadaan exists to repair India's broken roads — and to prove that one person, with conviction and a spade, can change a community.
Save lives
Every filled pothole is one less avoidable accident on India's roads.
Restore mobility
Smoother roads mean less fuel wasted, fewer damaged vehicles, less daily frustration.
Inspire citizens
Show that ordinary people — with simple tools — can change civic life.
Be the change
Embody Gandhi's philosophy through quiet, persistent, daily action.
Our approach
Direct civic action, powered by radical speed and grassroots innovation.
Mission Protocols
Protocol 02 / Innovation
The Pothole Ambulance
“A word we coined, a vehicle we built.”
The name Shramadaan gave its own repair vehicle — the mobile kit of gravel, tar mix and tools that turns a reported hole into a filled one.
Protocol 03 / Oversight
The Open Pothole Rate
The holes a city is carrying at any given moment
Every city is carrying an open pothole rate at any given moment: the holes in its roads right now. That number should be counted, published and owned — a register kept by the corporation and the mayor, checked street by street, and answered for in public.
The rate is directly proportional to harm: more open holes, more accidents, more injuries, more deaths.
Shramadaan exists to keep the rate low — and to make the counting impossible to avoid.
The Repair
Dangerous potholes and broken stretches are identified across Hyderabad and beyond, then repaired by hand with gravel and tar mix.
Transparency
Every intervention is documented and shared openly, so the work can be checked — and copied.
Mobilisation
Students, professionals and retirees join weekend drives, turning one man's habit into a citizen movement.