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The different units of Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) have been actively bridging the gap between innovation, investment and entrepreneurship. There have been numerous enquiries from entrepreneurs across the country and even from abroad for the grassroots technologies taken for incubation.
GIAN West
Mr. Vinod Gajjar has been awarded a design patent for his innovative tongs to hold heavy vessels. The tong was initially developed by Mr. Arvindbhai Patel for holding hot and heavy vessels and was further modified by Mr. Gajjar.
An entrepreneur from Hyderabad who is planning to set up an oil extraction unit in Andhra Pradesh was interested in the oil expeller, and has placed an order for three machines. The innovator has been able to implement some of the modifications made in the previous prototype and deliver a more efficient machine.
The bicycle hoe technology has been transferred to an entrepreneur Mr. Subash Jagtap, who has sold 150 units of the product. GIAN is helping the innovator develop a motorized version of the machine.
Mr. Paresh Panchal of Ahmedabad has modified the bamboo splint making machine developed by Usman Shekhani, by attaching a hand operated driving wheel. This increases the cutting capacity to 5000 splints per hour. A motorized version of the same was further developed having a capacity of 50,000 splints per hour. GIAN NE is looking into the possibility of diffusion of this technology in the North East, where most of the bamboo splint making takes place.
The Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), Kanpur has enquired about a manually operated washing machine, with minimal use of water. GIAN has identified an innovator, Kamal Kumar Agrawal, from Raipur, who has minimized the use of water by using compressed air, and is currently trying to integrate this design with the cycle-operated washing machine developed by Remya Jose.
GIAN North
The Rajasthan Government Department of Science and Technology has shown interest in various technologies and have acquired samples for showcasing in different villages, to facilitate technology diffusion. These innovations include Tile Making Machine, Manual Wood Cutting Machine, Bamboo Fan, Manual Milking Machine, Bicycle Sprayers, Innovative Tong, Low Cost Egg Incubator, Unique Handi cutter,Septic Tank Baffle System and hand pump with additional outlet for animal water tank
Texas Instruments has shown interested in the Mobile Phone Operated Switch for Irrigation systems developed by Prem Singh Ambala after watching it featured in NDTV. Texmo Industries in Coimbatore are also interested in this technology and in the groundnut trench digging machine.
Mr. CV Rao, Convener of the Energy Conservation Mission at the Institute of Engineers, Hyderabad has shown interest in low cost power generator based on cycle and GIAN (West) is currently co-ordinating with him for design modifications.
A leading fire-cracker manufacturer from Gujarat, Ambica Trading Co. has ordered custom made pieces for the remote operated Electrical Device for igniting fire crackers developed by Balaram Saini. The order has been delivered. M/S Naveen Gram from Jodhpur have shown an interest in marketing the improved multi-crop thresher in Rajasthan. They are also interested in setting up a formal company in partnership with the innovator.
GIAN NE
GIAN North East has been receiving enquiries from abroad for different technologies. There were enquiries from France and England for the beauty care umbrella for UV protection, from Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon for the tapioca peeling machine, Singapore and Chile for the areca nut peeling machine, and from Turkey, Israel and Egypt for the pomegranate de-seeder. One unit of the cassava peeling machine has been sold in Kenya and there have been enquires from other African countries.
GIAN NE is in the final stages of negotiating the technology transfer of areca nut peeling machine and paddy thresher.
The bamboo splint making machine has been sold NGOs and Self-help groups. Fourteen kits of the treadle press have been sold in Assam. The dual alarm system has been installed in ONGC fields and the innovator has has received an order to install 40 more such systems in the field. NIF and GIAN are supporting him in this venture through the Micro-Venture Innovation Fund.
Honoring Innovative Teachers
The Second Sir Ratan Tata Trust Educational Innovations Conference was held in Madurai, on 16 and 17 of December, 2005. The conference was organized by Ravi J Mathai Center for Educational Innovation, IIM A, in collaboration with SEVA, Madurai. Sixty seven innovative primary school teachers, from Government run Primary schools, spread acrossTamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Assam, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were honored during the conference. These teachers have developed innovative approaches to solving local problems related to education. The innovations include classroom tools for better understanding of subjects, raising donations for improving school infrastructure, increasing enrollment and attendance in schools and truing to solve conflicts in local communities.
These awards are given annually to teachers who have tried novel ways of teaching children, making education more inclusive, or improving relations between the school and the community.
The third National Search for Educational Innovations of Primary School Teachers is on and the entries should reach Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand, at Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad. |
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Honey Bee, 16(4):18, 2005 |
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