About Us

ABOUT US

CoRPS recognizes road safety as a public safety issue, and one that cannot be achieved wit hout the participation of the ‘public’. We are building an environment where everyone – governments, local bodies, elected representatives, businesses, and citizens –has agency to (and prioritizes) saving lives and injuries CoRPS envisions roads as thriving social spaces shared among people from all socio-economic classes, as an equal privilege, with equal respect, be it for commuting, living, or for livelihood.

CoRPS is on a mission where everyone has a heightened perception of hazards that the physical and dynamic road environment brings along. A result of the two above will be a significant reduction in the number of accidents and fatalities on the road. CoRPS started its journey in 2014, and over the past six years has achieved much more than just sensitizing people about this issue.

OUR JOURNEY

  • 2013

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  • 2014

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  • 2015

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  • 2016

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Late 2012 - India touches the highest number of road deaths in decades

Early 2013 – First Signature campaign which brought 37000 people together

Jul 2013 – Early co-led conversations with Ashoka fellows

Dec 2013 – Sunish Jauhari sets up Concern for Roads and Pedestrian Safety in Bangalore

Mar 2014 – Ashoka-UL $0.5mn partnership – Safer Roads, Safer India

Sep 2014 – India’s first Road Safety forum with UL

July 2015 – CoRPS launches StreetSafeStreetSmart in Bengaluru

Feb 2017 – Partnership with TCS Incubator for tech interventions in road safety

Sep 2017 – CoRPS sets up DriveIQ with Cranfield University to learn hazard perception

Mar 2018 – Partnership with 3M to build scientific temper among children for road safety

Oct 2018 - Partnership with United Way Bengaluru

Mar 2019 – Young Change Agents for Road Safety (YCARS) Pilot Project in Pune

Sept 2019 – Launch of Y-CARS Offline in 5 cities in India

Oct 2019 – Bloomberg covers YCARS

Apr-May 2020 – COVID relief for out-of-work drivers and their families

July 2020 – Creation of YCARS Online began

March 2021 – Y-CARS launched in Online mode

September 2021 – Y-CARS Online pilot in schools

January 2022 – Y-CARS Online launched in 3 schools in Delhi, Bangalore and Pune

April 2022 – Launched India’s first Sustainable and Safe Mobility Coalition at Catalyst2030

OUR CORE VALUES

Empathy for all road users - Shared Social Space :

Unlike some of the western and developed counterparts, road-users in India belong to many socio-economic classes with little social space shared by all. Roads happen to be the only space that is shared among all – from the homeless to the ultra-rich, from those who earn livelihoods off the road to those who commute on the road. But we do not naturally see it like that, and hence it triggers a competitive, apathetic attitude among different road users. We believe that reintroducing roads as Shared Social Space will help inculcate empathy and fundamentally change our behavior on the road.

Scientific Temper – Every road user with high hazard perception :

The Indian road environment, from the physical features like broken pavements and potholes to dynamic features like jaywalking or speeding vehicles, directly influences the risks of road-crashes. The absence of scientific temper among road users brings down a road user's ability to deal with the risks. Our approach at CoRPS incorporates science and scientific tools across the board. This also keeps us focused on safe-systems thinking as we develop interventions to prevent road accidents.

Agency for change – everyone to contribute to road safety :

Road safety is a public safety issue. It cannot be overcome unless the public – every road user – has an opportunity to contribute to change. Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Emergency-Response, each of the popular 4Es of road safety, has room to build agency among people to find different ways to contribute to road safety. We take ‘building agency’ seriously and hence CoRPS works with all constituencies, be it young students or driving schools or the governments, enables problem-solving agency in everyone.

Inclusion - Roads to reflect the diversity of public :

Public spaces need to reflect the diversity of public - along with age, gender, caste, community, livelihoods, and physical abilities. Currently, road infrastructure in India is largely built keeping in mind a specific user group. Be it for traffic cops on roads or for the cleaners who may have to enter the sewage lines for cleaning. Road infrastructure in India rarely counts in the needs of all road users irrespective of their caste, creed, or gender. We at CoRPS envision a road environment that keeps in mind the needs of all genders, castes, communities, persons with disabilities, and all age groups. We believe that roads should be equally accessible for people with disabilities. We hope to create dignity and meaningful work for transgenders (who are often only seen as beggars) while leveraging their knowledge of the roads. We are excited about creating opportunities for women who are using roads for their livelihood- either as a small pushcart vendor or as the traffic police. We feel roads should be as inclusive as possible.

With the above Vision, Mission, and set of Core Values, CoRPS commits to contribute to make Indian roads the economic, social, and cultural lifeline for every Indian and to save LIVES one by one.

OUR TEAM

CoRPS is a very small team of people with unique and scientific approaches. We aim to STRENGTHEN the existing efforts by the governments, non-profits, and experts, by bringing in data, psychology, and analytical science to road safety.
Here’s our team of staff. In addition to the following, we have a team of facilitators and consultants who are engaged on project-basis. Among our wider team of teams are individual leaders from Lifeline Foundation (Ahmedabad), Shubham Soti Foundation (Lucknow), Muskaan (Jaipur), and Arundhati Foundation (Bangalore).

But we consider the entire road-safety fraternity in India as OUR TEAM!
 
Sunish Jauhari – Founder

Passionate about saving lives, he started this initiative to prevent road accidents, and to reduce resulting injuries, disabilities, and deaths. He comes with over 20 years of experience in consulting, institution building, mentoring start-ups, and as a social entrepreneur himself. Sunish is an MBA from DAV, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He loves to paint in his free time.

 
Soudamini Mujumdar - Communications Consultant

Soudamini is an ex-journalist turned communications professional with a rich experience in the field of public relations and corporate communications as well. She provides communication support to the team for the various ongoing programs and company’s plans. She is a PG Diploma holder in journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai and has completed her graduation from DAVV, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She spends her free time reading books from her never ending TBR pile.

ENQUIRY FORM

If you feel passionate about any of the above areas of work and want to make a change in the road safety space, do reach out to us.