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Prez's scheme to boost innovation
Grassroots entrepreneurs staying at the Presidential Estate as part of ongoing \'In-Residence\' programme feel that the event has given them a big platform to showcase their talent, which will give impetus to ground-level innovations.
New Delhi: Grassroots entrepreneurs staying at the Presidential Estate as part of ongoing 'In-Residence' programme feel that the event has given them a big platform to showcase their talent, which will give impetus to ground-level innovations. "The in-residence programme has given me a good opportunity to display my creation. This will help me in promoting my innovation further. I thank President Pranab Mukherjee for launching such a programme," said 70-year-old Kamruddin Saifi, one of the innovators who had made a chaff- cutter with clutch and brake system.
15-year-old Priyanka Mathikshara, a young innovator from Chennai who has made an innovative solar-powered dustbin, said such initiatives boost young minds to pursue their ideas. "When we go to foreign countries, we see how clean they are. But in India the picture is different. The problem is with the infrastructure. So, I thought of developing a dustbin which will be powered by solar energy," she said.
The garbage bin, developed by her, will compress rubbish using solar power. "I am in talks with a company which has shown interest in taking up my project. This programme is really helpful and it feels great to live in such a royal residence," Priyanka said. Another innovator, Vikas Karade, a pass out of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, has made a software which can generate 3D model of bone shapes from its 2D X-ray image.
"This is a wonderful platform which gives innovators the opportunity to connect with the market," said Karade. Saifi, Priyanka and Karade are among the group consisting of 10 innovation scholars from across the country who have been staying at Rashtrapati Bhavan under the 'In-Residence' programme envisaged by the President to encourage the innovative potential of people at the grass-roots level.
27-year-old Shantanu Pathak has developed a mobile kit called 'Care Mother' which provides remote and regular healthcare access at doorstep, predicts and identifies high risk pregnancies and connects with doctor before complications can occur through innovative operating model.
"This will reduce the expenses of laboratory tests. My aim is to reach to every pregnant woman. In 5 years, I have reached out to 5 million women," he said. Rashtrapati Bhavan had also organised an exhibition to showcase innovations of several such grassroots innovators which concluded on Friday.
