After a year, the 22-year-old is planning to walk again with the associate of a "Jaipur Foot"- a nitty gritty prosthetic made locally.
These prosthetics enable amputees to work in sloppy fields, sit leg over the leg on the floor and easily utilize Indian-style squat toilets without expecting to expel the appendage.
The makers can produce 50 prostheses a day from a straightforward workshop in Rajasthan and, on account of gifts, fit them for nothing.
An expected 10 million Indians live with some type of development impedance as per government figures. It is regular to see amputees asking at activity stops or dragging themselves about on wheeled trucks.
Kumar, who acted as a circuit tester, dreaded he would persevere through a comparative destiny after his appendages were passed over in a cataclysmic mishap including a high-pressure wire.
Only a small amount of those damaged in mischances approach counterfeit appendages or different helpers.
"I was crushed supposing I should spend whatever remains of my life on supports," said Kumar, battling back tears as he sat tight for a fitting at Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, the philanthropy behind the one of a kind outline.
"These appendages have given me new expectation."
Neighborhood outline -
Prostheses cost a large number of dollars and take weeks to produce in many parts of the world, however for a long time the makers of the "Jaipur Foot" have been making many appendages a day for generally $60 each.
"The innovation we utilize is the end goal that the appendage can be made, rapidly," said Devendra Raj Mehta, the 80-year-old author of philanthropy behind the 'Jaipur Foot'.
Mehta credits economical building for the achievement of the plan and its expansion crosswise over India.
Produced using sturdy plastic channeling the appendage accessible for above and underneath knee amputees-requires little support and can be fitted in hours.
Wearers can leave the facility ready to run, swim, climb trees and ride a bike, Mehta said.
An extraordinary outline permits development in the lower leg and not at all like models somewhere else they can be worn without shoes-a tremendous in addition to in a locale where everybody goes shoeless in kitchens and sanctuaries or mosques.
As the prosthesis perseveres wear and tear, or the state of the leg changes after some time, new fittings can be masterminded rapidly and for nothing out of pocket.
"I am getting my fourth leg and I didn't need to spend a penny. It's much the same as getting an all new gumboot," said 50-year-old Rajkumar Saini, who lost his leg in a street mischance 13 years back.
New advances -
The plan has been successful to the point that it has discovered its direction abroad, helping amputees in nations from Africa and Asia to the Pacific Islands.
More than 25,000 fake appendages and different associates have dispersed worldwide since Mehta's philanthropy initially rolled the Jaipur Foot off the sequential construction system in 1975.
It is currently spreading into further developed innovation.
One of its best new manifestations is a self-greasing up, oil-filled nylon knee substitution that can be made for $20, a negligible part of the $10,000 charged for models somewhere else on the planet.
Made in a joint effort with Stanford College in the US, the simulated knee is considered so financially savvy it was named one of 50 best developments on the planet by Time magazine.
The coming of 3-D printing has opened new potential outcomes, as well.
The philanthropy has collaborated with a 24-year-old Indian designer Prashant Gade to print modest fake hands utilizing the progressive printing innovation he was talented at an MIT meeting.
Financing remains a steady test, however, Mehta was sure his thrifty operation would keep on reaching those in urgent need.
"I unequivocally trust that regardless of the possibility that one percent of individuals in this nation or on the planet are human, we might survive."
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