TN youth buys his dream Bajaj bike worth Rs 2.6 lakh by paying Re 1 coins only

A 29-year-old man from Salem in Tamil Nadu scrimped and saved Rs 2.6 lakh in one-rupee coins for more than three years to buy his dream bike, Bajaj Dominar 400.

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A young man in Tamil Nadu accumulated one-rupee coins over three years in order to purchase his dream bike from a Bajaj dealership in Salem. It took ten hours for the dealers to count.

V Boobathi, who resides in Ammapet's Gandhi Maidan, accomplished his fantasy last week when a Bajaj dealership traded his one-rupee coins for a Dominar 400 motorcycle (a total of Rs 2.6 lakh). The coins were brought to the showroom on March 26 by Boobathi and his friends in a minivan packed with gunny bags. Boopathi is a BCA graduate who works as a computer operator.

Boobathi said in an interview, “I decided to save money I earned from my YouTube channel. When I inquired about the on-road cost of the bike, I got to know that it was priced at Rs 2.6 lakh, and I had the amount this time."

When Boobathi approached the Bajaj showroom, the staff was a bit reluctant to accept the payment in one-rupee coins, because he had been converting his savings into small coins for the past three years. Boobathi, his four friends and five staff of the showroom counted the coins and took 10 hrs to count the full amount.

Bajaj Dominar 400 is the most powerful and expensive bike in Bajaj's line-up and is powered by a 373cc single cylinder, liquid cooled engine which develops 40 PS of power and 35 Nm of torque and is mated to a 6-speed gearbox. Bajaj Dominar is priced at Rs 2.17 lakhs (ex-showroom) in India.