Great Rural innovators in India

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rkumar said:
Dear friends,

Here is a news link from BBC;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4650065.stm

As one would notice, there are creative brains in rural India. All they need is some extra support to put their innovations in market. I think Young Jat engineers should look into opportunities here..

RK^2
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This is excellent; I would recommend to my family and other known farmers in our area to look into some of these innovations. Thanks for bringing these to our knowledge!!!
 
Rajendraji,

Hospital ke saath-2 kheti badi ki bhi soch rahe hain lagta hai ? From stethoscope to cultivators. Nice jump. Ha..ha.. (sorry, just kidding).

Anyway, thanks Rajendraji for this nice peace of information.
 
ramksehrawat said:
Rajendraji,

Hospital ke saath-2 kheti badi ki bhi soch rahe hain lagta hai ? From stethoscope to cultivators. Nice jump. Ha..ha.. (sorry, just kidding).

Anyway, thanks Rajendraji for this nice peace of information.
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Sehrawat Sahab,

These down to earth inventions really fascinate me. I always look for something, which can be implemented effectively at local level and at affordable price. My mind is working overtime these days to bring healthcare to our folks at a price, which is really affordable for them. I want to see our villages to be turned into BPO centres for our cities in the same way as our cities have become for overseas market. I some how believe that it’s the rural brain that will finally transform India. Some of us have to set examples by moving back and prove our ideas. I am certainly getting ready to experiment.

RK^2
 
Apart from the grassroot innovations and honeybee network, this organisation SRISHTI, was also planning to work on a project to pick up the brains of elderly women in some of the agricultural northern states for traditional common sense knowledge about their lives which is slowly disappearing....which i thought would make an excellent piece of research on alternative traditional lifestyles and knowledge. Would anyone have any additional info on this??
 
priti said:
Apart from the grassroot innovations and honeybee network, this organisation SRISHTI, was also planning to work on a project to pick up the brains of elderly women in some of the agricultural northern states for traditional common sense knowledge about their lives which is slowly disappearing....which i thought would make an excellent piece of research on alternative traditional lifestyles and knowledge. Would anyone have any additional info on this??
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There are lots of homemade simple medicinal recipes that need to be documented. I was reading few months back how brassware is useful in storing the water. Unfortunately we all have switched over to steel and plastic ware. Latest information has to reach to people in time and in proper form so that they understand its value.

RK^2
 
Dear all,

I was researching online when I came across this website

http://rinovations.org/Innovations.htm

It is called Rural Innovations Network (for Rural India), seems like a very decent website and they have listed quite interesting rural innovations. But most of the members/innovations/enterpeneur seem to belong to southern India.
Does anyone know more about this organisation?

Deepender
 
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These things can work so well for small farmers and people living in villages who cant spend much.
State govt.s should take steps to let their people know about these options.
 
Another very important technology which will benefit the rural India most, is human urine processing. Human Urine contains lots of nutrients useful for crops. Such projects have already been undertaken in various parts of world and following are some links;

http://www.miljo.gu.se/personal/zb/abstract.pdf

http://www.ruaf.org/1-3/35-37.pdf

http://www.kfpe.ch/projects/suas/baier.html

http://www.ecosanres.org/PDF files/Fact_sheets/ESR6lowres.pdf

Community toilets can be established in all villages where Urine and human excreta can be separated and then processed into compost and urea.

RK^2
 
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rkumar said:
Another very heartening news from Rural India;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4475190.stm

These are the real sons of soil who work silently and are changing the face of rural India.

RK^2
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Inspirable!! But why not our own media (Indian Media) bring them into highlights... Are not they having little bit space to write something about them...? I hardly read/listen such inspirable example through our media. If they can do it than it really can inspire to the lot of farmers...
 
mukeshkumar007 said:
Inspirable!! But why not our own media (Indian Media) bring them into highlights... Are not they having little bit space to write something about them...? I hardly read/listen such inspirable example through our media. If they can do it than it really can inspire to the lot of farmers...
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What to do Mukesh. Our media is busy with the dress of Monica Bedi, Cat of Bush and Dog of bil Clinton... Honest workers don't look for median attention anyway...so who cares whether our media take note of them or not.

RK^2
 
Here is another news item on rural innovations. Very interesting.

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/25spec.htm
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Great innovations from small town India



August 25, 2006
A bicycle that can peddle both on water and the road, a motorcycle used to pump out water from deep wells and a cellphone that can switch on electrical appliances within a specific radius!
Self-taught mechanics in India are pioneering these and many more. With such inventions, self-taught mechanics or villagers with little or no formal education to their credit are transforming the limited opportunities available to them in remote and rural areas, say experts.

"Formal and informal science can be linked to create new innovations and transform the opportunities available in rural India," says Anil Gupta of the Indian Institute of Management, who has taken upon himself to collect and collate such traditional information scattered all over the country under his Honey Bee network.

Students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras designed jackets that could carry water after he showed them a picture of a woman carrying a pot of water across a vast and arid desert, Gupta says.

Prem Singh, a class 10 dropout from Ambala modified his cellphone and it can now be used to switch any electrical appliance within a certain specified radius... all this development just cost him nearly Rs 2000, Gupta, who teaches at the IIM, says.

Prof Gupta, who runs many self-development groups, says under National Innovation Fund of India it was essential to encourage youth, especially technology students to undertake projects that address real life problems of rural enterprises.

Giving the example of an amphibious bicycle developed by a rural innovator Saidullah that could float on water and pedal on road he said it would if used during the recent Mumbai floods saved themselves from walking 20 to 30 kms to reach their homes.

The professor, who in his spare time walks several kilometres through villages to collect such information, has suggested formation of knowledge centres in rural areas that would provide know how about scientific advances to innovators in villages.

Gupta who has been working to bring such innovations to the forefront through the organisations of Srishti, Gian and NIF has already located manufacturers for some of these innovations.

MIT has shown interest in the rope climbing device of the coconut farmer Appachan in Kerala and M-Cam (M-cam.com) a technology marketing firm in the USA has successfully sold a license to a Virginia based company for the manufacture of a foot operated spray pump developed in Gujarat.

Gupta advocates for a change in the bureaucratic mindset and says officials "must acknowledge the limitation of our current institutions and knowledge management system and appreciate the need for a change."..................................................................................................


RK^2
 
Prof Gupta ... Hamare Haryane se

RK ji... am proud to add that Prof Anil Gupta is from Haryana.
Got to meet him in Feb 2006 when he was in our institute, MIT, Pune which had honored him with Bharat Asmita Award.
Really a great human being.

regards,
bharti.
 
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