Upen Roy, a resident of  Guwahati’s Boragaon area, bought a
scooter with a sack full of coins he had saved for eight years. 

The daily wage labourer had been saving coins in the denominations
of Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, and Rs 10 since 2014. Realising he had saved  Rs 1.5
lakh, he went to a local dealer on Tuesday to buy himself the  scooter.

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“Even if it takes a lot of money to fulfill a dream,
sometimes it can be fulfilled by saving, little by little,” said Hirak
Das, who reported the development on Facebook. 

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Another Assamese man  made waves on social media in February
when he bought a scooter and paid in coins. The shopkeeper in Barpeta district
had been saving for months before arriving at the showroom with a sack full of
coins.

Earlier, a man from Tamil Nadu named V Boopathi purchased his dream bike worth Rs 2.6 lakhs from a showroom in Salem.

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The man saved one rupee coins for more than three years to accumulate the cash to buy a Bajaj Dominar 400. According to media reports, it took ten hours for the showroom owners to count the money.

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News agency ANI reported that the coins were brought in a van and then offloaded in wheelbarrows. In order to collect these many coins, the boy would exchange all the currency notes he saved for one-rupee coins at hotels, temples and tea stalls.

Initially, manager Mahavikranth had refused to accept the coins but he later gave in because he didn’t want to disappoint him.