India's rural innovators have proved that ordinary people are indeed capable of extraordinary inventions. Despite many constraints,lack of education and severe cash crunch most of them have succeeded in using technology cost-effectively to build ingenious products.
Here are Some Innovations which really Inspires:
Amrit Agarwal:
Prof Gupta cites the example of Amrit Agrawat who made a pulley with a brake which could help the women to pull water buckets from the well so that they could stop in the midway through their labour. He donated one to each village and allowed the villagers to copy it for themselves. He sold 5000 pieces of the pulleys.
The Solar Mosquito Destroyer(Mathews K Mathew):
Developed in Kerala, this one-of-its-kind device could be a roaring success in the cities as well as far as we’re concerned. Using the septic tank smell as an attracting device for the mosquitoes, heat builds up inside it due to direct exposure to sunlight. Once the mosquitoes are trapped inside, they eventually die due to the accumulated heat.
The Multipurpose Herbs Processor(Daramveer Kamboj):
Crazy about herbs since childhood, Kamboj developed the obsession from his mother, who was an herbalist. What peeved Kamboj is that there were no cost-effective machines to make the process of converting herbs into gel a lot easier. After a years of unsuccessful prototypes, he finally came up with the processor, which can easily pulverise and extract oil or gel from any kind of herbs. The machine, Kamboj’s childhood dream, can cheaply produce gel from leaves and twigs as well which has proved to be highly beneficial to many living in the rural areas as well both for production purposes as well as self-medication in many cases.
The Water Tires(The Farmers of Madhya Pradesh):
Ploughing the hard fields is difficult if your tractor is light. It’s even more difficult if your tractor salesmen sell you expensive “weights” so that your tractor becomes heavier. So what do you do? You get together and brainstorm, and that’s exactly what the farmers of Madhya Pradesh did. The result was something so beautiful and simple that you can only marvel and applaud. They decided to fill the tires with water.
Here are Some Innovations which really Inspires:
Amrit Agarwal:
Prof Gupta cites the example of Amrit Agrawat who made a pulley with a brake which could help the women to pull water buckets from the well so that they could stop in the midway through their labour. He donated one to each village and allowed the villagers to copy it for themselves. He sold 5000 pieces of the pulleys.
The Solar Mosquito Destroyer(Mathews K Mathew):
Developed in Kerala, this one-of-its-kind device could be a roaring success in the cities as well as far as we’re concerned. Using the septic tank smell as an attracting device for the mosquitoes, heat builds up inside it due to direct exposure to sunlight. Once the mosquitoes are trapped inside, they eventually die due to the accumulated heat.
The Cotton Harvester(Nattubhai Vader):
Anyone with even the smallest bit of knowledge about farming would know that cotton-picking is the toughest, most gruesome form of harvesting there is. To counter that, Vader came up with an innovative design. A massive apparatus of spinning rubber hoses and a vacuum is attached to the tractor, which is then used to pick the cotton. The device is so effective that it picks as much cotton in an hour as 10 people would over a period of two days so you can imagine the kind of impact it’s had on people’s lives.
The Multipurpose Herbs Processor(Daramveer Kamboj):
Crazy about herbs since childhood, Kamboj developed the obsession from his mother, who was an herbalist. What peeved Kamboj is that there were no cost-effective machines to make the process of converting herbs into gel a lot easier. After a years of unsuccessful prototypes, he finally came up with the processor, which can easily pulverise and extract oil or gel from any kind of herbs. The machine, Kamboj’s childhood dream, can cheaply produce gel from leaves and twigs as well which has proved to be highly beneficial to many living in the rural areas as well both for production purposes as well as self-medication in many cases.
The Water Tires(The Farmers of Madhya Pradesh):
Ploughing the hard fields is difficult if your tractor is light. It’s even more difficult if your tractor salesmen sell you expensive “weights” so that your tractor becomes heavier. So what do you do? You get together and brainstorm, and that’s exactly what the farmers of Madhya Pradesh did. The result was something so beautiful and simple that you can only marvel and applaud. They decided to fill the tires with water.
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