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Pedal powered washing machine (PPWM) is a low-cost washing machine made up of easily and readily available scrap parts in daily life. It is a machine which generates power through pedaling and with a drive mechanism, converts the pedaling motion into required rotary motion of the drum, innovation lies in simple design, without use of inexpensive parts. We intends to directly address the problems faced in washing clothes, and thus have developed a new design for easy effort in washing, rinsing and drying clothes. In our country where approximately 70% of population is living with very poor economic status those people cannot have a washing machine because of cost constraints. The present work is an attempt to develop a concept to make a cloth washing mechanism which can meet our requirement of above mentioned 70% population. PPWM is completely new concept, which in its one laundry cycle does washing, rinsing and partial drying of cloths similar to that of automatic washing machine available in market