Kingcobra - Our Third Baby !

Kingcobra - the lifeline of the Snake Cell is our third baby, means we love it very much. In fact, it arrived before our other two babies (Sukhmani and Chirag). My wife Dr Rajbir and I worked very hard to get a vehicle for the Snake Cell, to reach people anywhere in the country. We sold our wildlife T-shirts (hand printed by us) very vigorously and conducted special tours as well, to raise funds for the vehicle. We were still in need of loan. In spite of our sincerity and all that, no bank was willing to extend loan to us, as we are not money generating company. Finally, IndusInd Bank agreed to give us loan at a very high rate of interest, we paid 18.6% loan, imagine. My experience is that most people only extend lip-service for such projects in India, which I hate the most. Soon, after it was bought, we worked on it relentlessly for months to modify it, so we could make it a `self-sustainable mobile unit' for the Snake cell; its has a bed (for two), kitchen, toilet, wash-basin, enough storage, small fridge, water tank, etc.

Now, we can carry our stuff, all by ourselves for our outreach programmes. It provides support to us, like a luxury hotel, when we visit villages or schools to deliver lectures about snakes and snakebite. Now, Kingcobra has extended our range to whole India. In 2003, we travelled from Chandigarh, along the west coast, down to Cochin and Chennai and back; did six months on roads and logged 12,000 kms. Our aim was to meet like minded people all over Western side of India. Kingcobra has realised our dreams.

LONG LIVE THE KINGCOBRA !!