Rachakonda Police Commissionerate
Good Samaritan Award — COVID-19
Award
More Than a Commute.
A Community in Motion.
Started in 2011 by four friends sharing one road to work — now a 1,700-strong corporate carpooling community across Hyderabad.
- Where it began
- 2011
- Community
- 1,700+
- Programmes
- 6+
- States
- 3
2011 · where it began
It started with a shared ride.
Four techies, commuting from Meerpet to HITEC City every day, decided to carpool — to save money, and to travel greener.
The car filled up. Then a second car. Then a group. Corporate mobility that grew, quietly, into community impact.
How TechieRide works
Growth
Four people became a community.
4
founders
2011
~900
members
Early growth
1,300
members
June 2020
1,700
community
Today
Carpool
A member vouches for you. Then you ride.
TechieRide is referral-only. That is the safety model — every member is known to another member.
01 · Referral
Someone vouches
You join on the reference of an existing member.
02 · Verification
We verify
Identity and workplace are checked before an account opens.
03 · Ride
Publish or find
Givers publish a route; seekers request a seat. The platform handles the rest.
A daily commute became a platform for service.
- Commute
- Connection
- Community
- Impact
Social impact
What the community does with the time it saves.
Education
Books, sports kit, and someone who turns up
Library books, sports materials and classroom resources for government schools — and career-guidance sessions run in person by members who took the day off to be there.
Village RideEnvironment · Prakruthi
2,000 trees, and placards painted by hand
Saplings in school grounds, plastic-awareness walks, cleanliness drives. Every board at a TechieRide walk is lettered the night before.
Blood donation
300+ units, one request at a time
A donor group inside the community, matched against live requests from hospitals and families across the city.
COVID response
They phoned on the 11th.
It arrived on the 14th.
An auto-drivers’ union in Uppal called on the evening of 11 April 2020. Three days later, rice, dal, oil, tamarind, salt and chilli powder reached 80 members of the union.
Kerala · 2018 floods
A school 700 km away wrote to say its students passed
TechieRide supported a school in Kainakary, Alappuzha, following the devastating August–September 2018 floods. Nine months later its headmaster wrote: “the School has 100% pass result… we were one of the schools which mostly affected… due to the high flood in August – September 2018.”
Institutional impactA snapshot of impact
- 30
- schools helped
- 2,000
- trees planted
- 300
- blood units
- ₹10L
- raised for Village Ride
- ~2L
- journeys shared
Today
- 1,700+
- Community
- 50+
- schools helped
- 1,000+
- blood units
- ₹50L+
- raised for Village Ride
- 6+
- Programmes
- 3
- States
Our programmes
Six programmes, one community.
Education
Village Ride
Library books, sports materials and classroom resources for rural government schools — delivered in person, alongside career-guidance and motivational sessions for students.
Community
Blood Donation
A donor group inside the community, matched against live requests from hospitals and families across the city.
Education
VidyaNidhi
Fees, books, and where it is needed hostel and mess, for students who would otherwise stop — carried from Intermediate through to professional degrees. Some are funded by the community; some by a single member who takes on one student end to end.
Environment
Prakruthi
Tree planting in school grounds, plastic-awareness walks and cleanliness drives — placards painted by hand the night before.
Community
Summer Water Camp
Free roadside drinking water through the Telangana summer — the traditional చలివేంద్రం (chalivendram), restocked daily by members.
Community
Tribal Support
Staples and medicines for tribal families near Wyra, Khammam.
Recognition & impact
Awards & Recognition
Good Samaritan Award
TechieRide received the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate’s Good Samaritan Award for COVID-19 service — one of the Good Samaritans felicitated for their service and generosity during the pandemic.
- Presented by
- Rachakonda Police Commissionerate
- Date
- 30 May 2020
- Place
- Neredmet, Hyderabad
- Signed
- Mahesh M Bhagwat, IPS · Commissioner of Police
Recognition & impact
Institutional Impact
Schools, community organisations and public institutions have documented and recognised TechieRide’s work — in their own words, on their own letterheads.
SNDP HSS Kuttamangalam
Support after the 2018 Kerala floods
School letter
ZPHS Kondapur
Village Ride — books, sports kit, career guidance
School letter
MPPS Chennareddipally
Teaching and learning material
School letter
Ramanthapur Seven Seater Auto Owners Welfare Association
COVID-19 assistance to 80 members
Association letter
Where we work
From one commute to three states.
Documented activity across seven Telangana districts, and a school in Alappuzha, Kerala, after the 2018 floods.
Media coverage
TechieRide in the media
Events & campaigns
What’s on
Completed
Fifteen medals on equipment TechieRide supplied
Girls from Suryapet took fifteen medals at the ASMITA Khelo India League 2 weightlifting competition at Dilsukhnagar — one gold, one silver and thirteen bronze across the youth, junior and senior grades, from 45kg to over 86kg. They train at Kodada under Coach Kyathi, on professional weightlifting equipment supplied by TechieRide. The medals are theirs and their coach’s; TechieRide’s part was the equipment.
Campaign
Mile For Education
A fundraising run organised by TechieRide with SBI as title sponsor, raising funds for Abhyasika — Seva Bharathi’s free after-school study centres for children in slum and tribal settlements. The 2026 edition ran at 5.30 in the morning of Sunday 5 April from the DRF Training Centre at Nagole, over four distances: one, three, five and ten kilometres.
Register interest
Completed
Reduce, Repair & ReUse — bicycles for school students
Old bicycles collected across the city through August and September 2026, repaired, and handed to students at the government school in Vangoor on the morning of 19 September — at school prayer time, so the whole school was there. Reduce, Repair, ReUse: TechieRide’s own name for it.
Completed
Sports materials for ZPHS Ithole
Sports materials worth ₹12,000 handed to the students of Zilla Parishad High School, Ithole, on Republic Day 2025. The school’s Gazetted Head Master wrote to thank TechieRide, on school letterhead and under the school seal.
Completed
The first Village Ride
Village Ride began where the Working President grew up — Kuntalgudem, in Choutuppal mandal. The programme has since reached government schools in Narayanpet and Siddipet, and in Guntur across the Andhra Pradesh border.
Completed
Government school handover
Materials handed over to a government school under the TechieRide banner.
Completed
Support for private-school van drivers, Adikmet
Fifteen days of essential supplies for private-school van drivers left without work during the lockdown, delivered jointly with Sevadhan. Reported by ETV Bharat.
Completed
Essential supplies for 80 auto union members
The Ramanthapur Seven Seater Auto Owners Welfare Association telephoned on the evening of 11 April 2020. On 14 April, rice, dal, cooking oil, tamarind, salt and chilli powder reached 80 members of the union.
Completed
Blood donation drive
Members donate against live requests from hospitals and families across the city.
Completed
Tree planting
Saplings planted in school grounds as part of Prakruthi.
Completed
Clean city and plastic awareness rally
A community walk for cleanliness and against single-use plastic, with placards painted by hand.
Completed
Tribal Support, Palvancha
Staples and medicines for tribal families near Wyra.
Seasonal
వేసవి చలివేంద్రం · Summer Water Camp
Kiosks open across the city each summer, restocked daily by members.
Gallery
From the TechieRide archive
Member testimonials
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