Navi Mumbai: Kharghar primarily based couple who had began their ‘Nice Indian Journey’ on December 1, are closing off their journey as we speak at Kharghar after protecting 19,400 km distance throughout 28 states and 5 Union Territories. The duo had a 101-day street journey throughout India to assist and encourage native companies affected by the pandemic. The couple- Kaustav Ghosh and his spouse Laxmi Sorte- each 31, and in addition founders of The Nice Indian Journey have been on a North East journey round two and half years in the past once they determined that they need to cowl the entire of India at one go.

However when the Pandemic struck, they made this concept right into a venture to carry collectively all of the small businessmen below one umbrella to assist them achieve enterprise from one another. “Throughout the journey, we related with about 800 such businessmen and have requested them so as to add extra folks they know round. Additional, we plan to tie-up with e-commerce and assist all of the members to provide and take enterprise,” Ghosh stated.

Ghosh, a advertising advisor who owns a startup and Sorte, a business artist was each working remotely whereas travelling for 101 days. The duo had saved round ₹5 lakh for this journey however focused to spend roughly ₹3 lakh which they have been profitable at. Of the whole bills, ₹1.05 lakh was spent on gas. The couple drove between 250 to 300 km day-after-day and spent a median of ₹1,200 per day on petrol, ₹700 on lodging, ₹400-500 on meals and ₹100 for miscellaneous bills. At a couple of locations, they stayed on the locations offered by their households and buddies unfold throughout the nation and on the relaxation, they stayed in resorts. Ghosh-Sorte’s essential thought behind the journey was to achieve out to most native companies, information them with the advertising methods and share their tales with others. “Journey, community and expertise the actual India to construct a community of sustainable communities throughout the nation,” Ghosh stated.

Together with networking, the couple made some reminiscences for lifetime which included their interplay and stick with tribals in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. In Kashmir, they have been hosted by activist Shafqat Shaikh’s household with whom that they had interacted solely on-line. In one other adventurous expertise that they had at Manipur, they obtained stranded at Nungba city and it was pitch darkish at 8.30pm. Whereas there was nobody round to assist they usually had no thought what to do subsequent, Manipur police guided them to security.