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Palle Srujana |
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Secunderabad - 500094 |
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Uday Bhaskar: A creative struggleful journey |
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"Andhra Pradesh, a south-eastern state of India. It is seventh-largest state by covering about 163,000 km² and tenth-most populous state with 4.9 cr people. , with the state capital being Amaravati. 4.94 crore population.
Telangana has become a separate state having 11th largest area and 12th largest populous state of India. Hyderabad is a major IT and engineering education hub besides a strong start-up culture." |
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"Kasoju Udaya Bhaskar was born to Kasoju Somayya and Sakkubhai who belong to Gundenga village of Guduru Mandai in Mahbubabad district of Telangana. He was married to Sphurti Vahini and was blessed with a daughter Swamamayi who is studying in class 1Oth at present. Udaya Bhaskar wasn’t able to pass 1Oth standard on his first attempt but even a f t e r attempting two times subsequently, he couldn’t make it. He quit studies thereafter. He moved to Hyderabad for livelihood and joined his uncle who was working as a carpenter. On uncle’s advice, Uday learnt carpentry from him.
He eventually started carpentry business on his own for a year and as the business grew, he employed four workers. What he saw was that these workers having become proficient in carpentry, they left him to start on
their own. The labour shortage always troubled Uday. Later due to the introduction of MGNREGA, fmding workers became more difficult. So, he decided to do something all by himself without depending on the labour.
During those days, running the Internet centres seemed to be a profitable business and so he started one in Kothapeta in Hyderabad. It worked well for two years. Once the touch phones and I- phones came into the market, Internet centres became superfluous and business reduced drastically. Uday looked for such business which should only grow and should not bring him losses.
He considered starting a business with plastic bottles as it was in demand and is not likely to fade away with time. He thought that apart from plastic bottles, the caps or other usable can bring profits. He bought few dies and decided to procure one
‘Injection Moulding’ machine for manufacturing plastic items. With the savings from the previous business, Uday bought a Moulding machine for Rs 15 lakhs
and established his factory in Jeedimetla. It ran well for few years and stared facing same old labour issues. He decided to face these challenges than running away from this lucrative business.
His past experience in carpentry and computers was useful to design a machine to replace the labour. He first manufactured an AC plant using a compressor. Then using the same compressor, he made a conveyor belt to feed the small plastic pellets to the moulding machine. His machine had a capacity of transferring one ton of plastic pellets to the moulding machine without labour. Benefitting from this experiment, Uday explored the possibility of this idea to rice millers who also have a need for feeding the mill with huge quantities of paddy and use labour extensively. He explained to the owner of the neighbouring rice mill about the machine and highlighted the possibility of reduction in workload and dispensing
with labour. The rice mill owner liked the idea but asked for a machine with higher capacity to suit rice mill requirements such as height quantity and the distance involved. He assured that such machine meeting the needs of rice mills will be purchased by many rice mill owners.
Uday found that for his plastic moulding machine being smaller capacity does not have the capacity to suck the plastic pellets and hence he utilized a compressor with adequate power to push the pellets into the moulding machine. Rice mill is being a bigger machine; he utilized its power to draw its input without the help of compressor. Uday could do what he conceived. Paddy will go into the Rice mill once the mill starts. Rice mill owner impressed by the design and efficiency of the Uday’s innovation, not only purchased the first machine but also recommended the same for purchase to many of his fellow rice mill owners.
This machine can draw the paddy from a distance of20 feet and can pull it up to a height of 50 feet. Uday found that his innovation can further help reduce the labour for the rice mill owner. When a truck comes to the rice mill with paddy, it is unloaded, dried in the sun and the loaded into the rice mill. Sizable number oflabour was employed for this task. Uday’s machine being portable can do this task by reducing the labour requirement to 20%. This machine draws paddy from the truck and spreads for drying. Once dried, paddy is shifted to the rice mill by the same machine. Use of such machine in the Market Yards will reduce the cost of the porters too.
As this experimental machine is working well at present, big industries, coffee seed factories are also placing the orders for similar machines. Uday found that similar problem exists for farmers to load the paddy after harvesting from the farm to a truck or a trailer. He designed a small machine for farmers too. In villages, if they can place this machine beside the threshing machine of Com, paddy, Jowar and Pearl millet then they can directly pull the threshed grains into
their tractor trailer or bullock cart. At present, he is receiving orders from many customers and Uday is busy in executing them.
Udaya Bhaskar is experimenting to make the machine at a low cost for farmers. But he requires money to invest in experimenting it properly. But he is hoping that he will make a machine that is useful for the farmers to harvest paddy soon. Palle Srujana wishes that Uday succeeds in his mission so that the cost of bringing the thrashed paddy from his farm to the market or to his home for a farmer will be considerably reduced. By collaborating with NIF, Palle Srujana is trying to bring national- level recognition to Uday Bhaskar for the innovative contribution with high impact to the society including farmers.
By Jemmaladadaka Sesi Mohan & Palle Veera Raghava Reddy
Translated into English by Sucharitha Kamireddy
Pallesrujana Vol. 8 issue 2 January-
Fevruary 2020
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Honey Bee, 32(1-2)25-27, 2021 |
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