part 2 amazing innovation

amazing innovation

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Sakrabhai Prajapati (Exercising chair- Maruti Jhoola)
Gujarat

Modern life with its fast pace and sedentary lifestyle has created the need for solutions incorporating relaxation and invigoration.

Maruti Jhoola is a unique health chair with multiple capabilities, functions and settings for various postures and seating dynamics.

It is ergonomically designed and serves the purpose of seating as well as exercising for a person weighing up to 120 kg. It can double up as a hammock or a jhoola.

The health chair is useful for people suffering from arthritis and joint ailments.

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Sheikh Nazim (Stencil cutter)
Gujarat

Conventionally, stencils are prepared by punching on paper using needles, which is a very cumbersome and tedious task.

Nazim has developed small innovative punching device to apply design on butter paper to facilitate designing on the cloth

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Brahmam, Ajmeri (gas-operated iron)

Brahmam and Ajmeri have developed the gas-operated iron,which is simple in design and have low operating cost.

This eliminates the problems associated with irregular supply of electricity and availability of coal

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Mathews K Mathew (Solar Mosquito Destroyer)
Kerala

This device makes use of the smell from the septic tank to attract the mosquitoes, which get trapped in the device.

Heat builds up inside the device as a result of direct sunlight exposure. The trapped mosquitoes, thus, get killed due to the accumulated heat.

He has commercialised his product, on a small scale and will love to have partners who will scale it up. The innovator has also developed house fly trap.

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This stove uses paddy husk, which is cheaply available, as fuel and gives a smokeless flame. The stove and the fuel, both being cost effective, are easily affordable for common man.

It weighs 4 kg. It needs about one kg husk per hour.

V Jayprakash (Efficient wood stove)
Kerala

Jayprakash has incorporated a secondary burning chamber in the stove to allow maximum combustion of the hydrocarbons, released as a result of the burning of biomass. He has also developed many variants of the same.

The stove has higher combustion efficiency in the range of 37.67% when wood is fueled and 29.48% when coconut shell is used as fuel.

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C Senthil Kumar (Efficient wood stove)
Tamil Nadu

The walls of this stove have been insulated using brick made from special clay, which reduce heat loss and hence increase efficiency.

Different variants of the same for household and commercial use have been developed by Senthil Kumar. The innovator has sold over 15000 units of different versions of these stoves.

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Remya Jose (Washing-cum-exercise machine)
Kerala

All those who wash clothes by hand have often wished for a washing machine that is cheap. But then, frequent power cuts (particularly in the rural regions) would make it difficult for one to use even a low-cost electric washing machine.

Remya Jose, then a class 11 student, thought of a simple, ingenious solution. She developed a washing machine which does more than just wash clothes. It even provides its users the chance to shed a few kilos!

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Abhishek Bhagat (Automatic Food Making Machine)
Bihar

Who has not wished a machine, which would cook one's chosen recipe every time exactly as one wished it to be? But then such a machine will not elude us any more, if Abhishek's innovative food machine comes in the market.

This is a tested gadget with boxes in it to hold different ingredients and a display screen from which one can select options to cook different items.

Then, the screen displays the required quantity of each ingredient. Once the items are fed into the machine, it cooks the dishes.

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N Sakthimainthan (Hand operated water lifting pump)
Tamil Nadu

Sakthimainthan built his hand operated water pump in response to a dearth of available pumps that could be afforded by small farmers.

He built five prototypes over a period of fifteen years before finally perfecting his design.

The resulting water-lifting device is operated by the continuously rotating a handle. It is simple in design and has a high discharge at low cost compared to the motorized pumps and conventional hand pumps.

The pump has discharge of 20,000 lph at 0.75 m head. The unit has also been tested by TNAU, Coimbatore and improved by CMERI Durgapur. It is useful device for drainage as well.

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Radhey Shyam Sharma (Bullock operated sprayer)
Madhya Pradesh

Bhanjibhai MathukiaGujarat

The bullock operated sprayer is pulled by a pair of bullocks and gets the drive from the ground through a gear box and belt pulley system.

When the operator shifts the lever to a higher gear, the frequency of strokes of the pump increases as a result of which more pressure develops in the container. The spray fluid, thus, atomizes into fine droplets with a wider swath.

This sprayer considerably reduces time requirement as compared to manual spraying and also the drudgery and health hazards involved in manual spraying.

It has 18 nozzles, spaced at a distance of 35 cm and can cover 3.5 acre/h.

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M. Nagarajan (Lemon cutter)
Tamil Nadu

A small workshop owner from Uslampathy village in Tamilnadu, M Nagarajan has developed an innovative technology for cutting lime into small pieces in bulk quantity.

This technology offers a great value proposition for the pickle manufacturing companies. The pickle industry suffers with a big problem of inefficiency in its operations due to low degree of automisation e.g. cutting of fruits is done manually.

The second big problem, the industry faces is short-supply of labour during peak seasons, which limits the capacity.

It is a novel machine in terms of its cost effectiveness, efficiency, drudgery reduction for women, safety considerations and transmission system

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Bhagwan Singh Dangi (Reaper windrower machine)
Madhya Pradesh

Many times, in a standing crop, soybean pods shatter due to non-availability of labourers for harvesting the crop in time, leading to reduced yield and loss. To solve this problem Bhagwan Singh decided to develop a reaper windrower machine.

This device has three different units namely, cutting unit, which consists of cutter bar, reel unit for pushing the standing crop towards the cutter bar and gathering unit to windrow the crop at centre of the machine thus making it easy to handle/transport to the threshing floor.

It reduces manpower requirement and the drudgery involved in the harvesting process. The machine has 7 ft width of operation and can cover 0.4 hectares per hour. While operating this machine, fuel consumption of tractor is 2.5-3 litres per hour.