According to a report by the National Highways Authority of India, 1.75 lakh people die in road accidents every year, of which 55,000  are truck drivers. For Jehaan Kotwal, CEO of JFK Transport, this wasn’t just an alarming statistic; it was a problem for which he felt compelled to find a solution. “As the son of a truck driver, I’ve travelled the length and breadth of the country. When I joined my dad’s business, we had a fleet of ten trucks and would end up seeing about three to four accidents happen every year. I wasn’t okay with this, so we tried to come up with solutions.” In 2017, when he went to IIM Ahmedabad on a scholarship for a logistics programme, he realised the severity of the problem. “We learnt that about 80 per cent of these accidents are due to human error and can be easily avoided,” he says.

Kotwal has teamed up with his batchmate Sumedh Mane, an entrepreneur who specialises in technology, to create the HumSafer Driver Safety Foundation. It’s the only smart app dedicated to the safety of commercial drivers in India, the team claims. It is also free.