Innovators Camp at PSG College, Coimbatore

Workshop for Innovators will be held on 9th April 2009 in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Contact TUC Coordinator:
K Suresh Kumar
PSG-STEP
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore - 641 004
Phone: 91-422-4363300,4363301
Fax : 91-422-2573833

PG Diploma in Intellectual Property and Technology Management in Agriculture(PGD-IPTMA)

NAARM is offering this one year residential course. For details:
http://www.naarm.ernet.in/PGDIPTMA/CourseHighlights.asp

Chinese Farmer Innovations

Rick Martin covered some interesting Chinese farmer innovations. See
http://inventorspot.com/articles/7_amazing_chinese_farmer_inventions_and_mods_25322

Agro Business development camp, Patiala

Agro Business Incubator, ICRISAT, Hyderabad in association with Science and technology Entrepreneurs Park of Thapar University are organisig one day Agri Business development Camp in Patiala on 28th March. Interested innovators can contact, Dr Dinesh Goyal (098156 61075) or S.Aravazhi ( 098661 81519)

Innovators meet 2009 at Durgapur

CMERI, Durgapur is organising Innovators meeting at Durgapur on 25th & 26th March 2009. There will also be a workshop on product design for selected TePP innovators. Contact:

Soumya Sen Sharma

Coordinator, TUC-CMERI

Phone: 03436510256 (O), 03436510456 (R), 09232392774 (M)

INNOVATORS MEET AND TECHNOVISION-2009,Bhilai

TePP Outreach Centre, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai is organising this innovators meeting on 20th March 2009 at Bhilai.

The Programme – “Innovators Meet and Technovision – 2009” aims at bringing together the persons having innovative ideas and possessing the capacity to transform innovation to entrepreneurship. Such persons may range from students of technical educational institutions to faculty members, research workers, field professionals and practitioners. The Programme further aims at providing an opportunity to young innovators for showcasing the models and prototypes developed by them.

Contact :

Shri B L Sharma, Programme Coordinator : 0788-2261311

Shri M L Deshmukh, Co-coordinator – 9926633310

Shri V K Agarwal. Co-coordinaor – 0788-2261311

TePP Workshop at Udaipur

Next workshop for innovators and start-ups in Udaipur is planned for 30th March 2009. Contact:

Dr. S.M.Mathur Associate Professor Department of Farm Machinery & Power Engineering College of Technology & Engineering Udaipur-313 001 (Rajasthan) INDIA e mail: shiloo592003@yahoo.co.uk phone: 91-294-2470119 (o), 2471604 (R, 09460028535

TePP counselling center at Rajahmundry

Innovators from Rajahmundry and nearby areas can access government grants for independent innovators under TePP by contacting:

Dr. Sri Nivasa Rao Y, Associate Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry - 533105, INDIA, Tel:+91 9849082084

TePP on Doordarshan, Simla

TePP Network partner R.KSud, will appear on Doordarshan Kendra Shimla with the topic "Techno-preneur Promotion Programme - an opportunity to the innovative farmers and other innovators" under the progeamme Krishi Darshan at 6.00 - 6.30 pm on 11.03.2009

23rd Shodh Yatra (28th May 2009 to 2nd June 2009) in Dahod, Gujarat

The 23rd Shodhyatra will commence from Ratanmahal in the Dahod district. Ratanmahal is famous for the sloth bear sanctuary. The yatra will traverse through hills and jungles, pausing at villages, hamlets and will proceed towards Bhabhra covering approximately 100 kilometers over a period of five days. The stretch of the shodhyatra route is inhabited primarily by various tribal groups like Rathawa, Nayak, Bhil, Bhilala, Patliya. Bhabhra, where the Shodhyatra culminates is the birth place of the famous freedom fighter, Chandra Shekhar Azad and a small memorial has also been erected here in this honour. Interested in joining? contact:
RAMESH PATEL, Secretary-SRISTI, Editor-Loksarvani, SRISTI INNOVATIONS, Cell Number: +91(79)9825061139(M)

Toxel.com

For new designs seehttp://www.toxel.com/
An exhaustive list , delight for all interior designers.

Open Innovation-challenge 1

Overloading of trucks is a known problem.How does police check it? One option is take it to weigh bridge but this option is limited as there are many kilometers of road without weigh bridge. The second option , a more popular one, is measure the deflection in the suspension system. Our smart operators have beaten the system with workshops modifying the suspension system either by reinforcing it or replacing them with spring leaves having higher stiffness value.
Do you have a solution to this problem?

car with compressed air

Serial innovator Kanan Gagoi, mentored by NIF, has come up with another innovation - car running on compressed air which he calls -Pawan -Ex. His other innovations are:

1. Powered hang glider using a 2 stroke motorbike engine .

2. Aeroboat (Shallow bottom boat propelled with on board aero propeller).

3. Amphibian boat using on board aero propeller.

4. Trigo X a tadpole configured (2 wheels at front with 1 rear wheel) 3 wheeled vehicle for personal use with seating for 2 persons.

5. Gravity based bicycle for using gravitational for its propulsion.

6. Electricity generation device from speed breaker.

7. Water bicycle.

8. .Solar Hybrid Car.

9. F-Ray Moving Treadmill for Gym application.

10. “Kontilo” 5.5HP Mini Tractor for ploughing, tilling and rural transportation both for Hilly and plain terrain.

He started a NGO `Innovation Research Centre to support other innovators.

For more details contact, chinzah@nifindia.org

Proposals invited from Biotechnology Student Teams

BEST-India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams) is aimed at encouraging young postgraduate and doctoral students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship and exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science. The scheme is sponsored by The Department of Biotechnology, (www.dbtindia.nic.in) Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and will be managed and administered by Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises, ABLE – India. (www.ableindia.org) .
Last date for receiving concept note- 31/03/2009.

Carpenters without fingers

Visitors to Delhi Wood, open till 17th Feb at Pragati maidan, Delhi can visit TePP innovator Vinayaga Pandi in Hall 18, Lower level, shell no A9. He is carpenter, who developed Split type cutter. What is speacial about it? Imagine a carpenter without fingers. Can he survive? That was the fate of several carpenetrs unable to afford expensive cutters and trying out poorly designed local adaptations. He solved the proble with his design and capernters using his tool earn money without losing fingers god has given them.

The Power of ideas

Indian Angel Network and Economic Times have launched the 'Power of Ideas' Program, to watch out for entrepreneursover 4 months starting January 21 to May 10, 2009.

The key objectives of the program is to discover and encourage entrepreneurship by highlighting the creation of new enterprises, the value of Angel investing, bringing the ventures closer to early stage Investors. The program intends to provide Entrepreneurs with a dynamic platform for interaction with mentors & investors. IAN will vet & short list the Business summaries and bring IAN members as mentors of selected entrepreneurs.

For further details about this unique program and the participation

procedure do log onto: www.ideas.economictimes.com
Contact person: Aditya Roy at aditya@indianangelnetwork.com .

last date for submissions of Business Summary is Feb.20, 2009.

Multi Purpose lamp from Kashmir innovator

Mr.G.A.Mir is innovator from Kashmir. His Innovation is Multi Purpose Lantern. In his Lateran,

he had fixed a radio as well as a battery operated light in a traditional lantern. This Multipurpose lantern is now ready to market with active support of National innovation Foundation and University of Kashmir.

The Lantern has fallowing properties:

1. Back up for min four days.

2. Bell range about 15 feet.

3. Radio 3 band

4. indicators

1. Low batary

2.full charge

3. on charging

5. mobile can be charged

6. Internal battery can be charged on

Ac

' solar panel
For deatils/ bookings conatct:

Dr G.M. Bhat Chairman Gain Cell J&K, Director USIC University of Kashmir, mob:-09419404789,

Syed Nadeem NIf Collabrator , nadeemcare@gmail.com, nadeem@nifindia.org , Mob. 09906595175

G.A. Mir Innovator, 01932- 210466

Ideas4all

Got an idea? Post it to share it with others on ideas4all.

Pancha Gayya from KrishnaRao

Pancha Gavya, is a Vedic preparation with five cow products - dung, ghee, urine, milk and curd. Sugarcane juice, tender coconut water, fresh toddy and ripe banana too go into it. The yellowish brown liquid smells like dung and urine with a special tang wafting due to the use of ghee, milk and sugarcane. Wing Commander YVKrishna Rao (retd) is one of the advocates of this ancient system and has been demonstrating it in farms in Krisha District. Read about him in Hindu. His email ID:Leokrish@aol.com

One Billion Minds

One Billion Minds is a new open innovation network in Beta stage. Indian Students can respond to the challenges posed on the site and win prizes. They also are hiring 12 university innovation ambassadors.

Innovation screening camp at Srinagar on 20th &21st January

A 2 day workshop on `Entrepreneurship Development Through Technology Innovation and

Commercialization' is planned on 20th & 21st January 2009 at Gandhi Bhawan during which eligible innovations for TePP funding will also be screened. Contact:

Prof. G M Bhat

Director USIC &

Chairman GIAN-Cell (J & K)

The University of Kashmir

Hazratbal, Srinagar-190006
M): 09419404789/ 09797133183

Innovation Funding camp at Roorkee on 20th January

Innovation Funding camp will be held on 20th January 2009 at IIT Roorkee. Contact:
Prof PK Ghosh, 01322-285873, 285699

Innovation funding camp at VIT, Vellore on 19th January

Innovation Funding camp is planned to be held at Dr Ambedkar Auditorim , VIT University on 19th January at 1430hrs. All eligible innovators for TePP support are invited to register.
Contact address: The project coordinator, VIT-Technology Business Incubator, 0416-2202303

Revival of Kinnal art

Kinnal Art was found and encouraged during the regime of King Krishnadevaraya, Vijayanagar empire in the year 1336. Since from those days, even today this traditional art is being carrying out. But one finds this art only in few families of Kinnal as many others have migrated. The old traditional art is protected by few people . The specialty of this art rest in painting, which is called LAJAWAR painting This paint is prepared by hammering tin 4 to 5 hours, till it gets molten form. After getting this liquid they add colors to paint it. It will not vanish or lasts its glamour, which we can see on the wood, steel and even on the marble and stones especially on the walls and sealing of olden temples and palaces. Usually two 15kg hammers are used for this purpose.

For the few that are carrying out this heritage art till now, the main problem is hammering of tin. Because it takes more time to melt and people who are engaged in this hammering work, they are charging more and availability of man power is less. Because of this reason artisans using artificial paints which will lade very early and genuine artists are concerned of loosing importance of Kinnal Art. Since this pounding of tin is tedious process people engaged in this pounding will get chest pain more offeten. Due to above all factors Kinnal art has lost its luster due to migration to commonly available led based chemical paints.

The whole village celebrated when Anjaneya Chitragar found a new echnique by using Tin pounding (Grinding) machine to get tin in a liquid form.

(as told by Hemanna Chitragar)

Photopgraph shows inventor Anjeneya Chitragar in white shirt. The innovation is funded under TePP by SSIT,Tumkur

Envision 2008-The National Innovation Contest

Envision 2008 is a product design competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur. The winners stand good chance of receiving TePP grants upto Rs 60 lakhs in phases. Last year's runner up received TePP grant. Finals are scheduled on 10th January 2009.

Innovators camp at Pune

TePP will be meeting innovators in Pune on 23rd December. Event is facilitated by IITians of Bombay.
Venue: Hall 2 at MCCIA on Senapati Bapat road
Time: 3-4PM
Contact person: Ajay Pathak, 9822099058

Innovation Camps in Ambala

TePP is organising innovators meet at Ambala on 22nd & 23rd December.
Contact person:
Shri D S Kajal,
ERDC Campus
G.T.Road, Near IOC Depot,
Ambala Cantt.-133001, Haryana
dskajal_hartron@yahoo.co.in
0171 2610418
+91 9416322143

Updated list of TePP Out Reach Centres

Updated list of 28 TePP out Reach Centres (TUC) is posted on DSIR web page www.dsir.gov.in
In unrepresented areas, counseling centres attached to TUCs will be opened in near future.
TUC Monitoring Committee is empowered to screen, evaluate & recommend suport to innovations under Micro Technopreneurship Support category and several of them have been sanction till now.

Technology Delivery Centre at Audishankara College of Technology and engineering , Gudur

Audishankara College of Technology and engineering , Gudur with support from TePP organised a innovation exhibition on 19-20th December. Innovators got an opportunity to showcase their products and got accolades form the society.
Display of rural innovations in large number is an essential part of TePP strategy to take innovations to market. The college has come forward to organise this event , first of its kind in country, with large participation by students and public. TePP plans to organise such innovation mela in all parts of country where farmers will get an oportunity to see working models of rural innovations presented by innovators.

PM urges scientists to fight against terror

News papers carried Prime Minister's speech at Shati Swarup Bhatnagar awards on 20th December, where few priority areas were identified for scientists to fight terror- Surveillance systems, cryptography, near real time search and identification from distributed large data bases and computer simulation exercises. While most activities needed heavy resaerch, there are also opportunities for independent innovators and start-ups eligible for TePP support. TePP funded 4 innovators working on innovations of releance to security. There are also cases, where applications in cryptography etc could not be supported as testing at end of the project is not clear. In the coming years , we can expect to suport more security related innovations coming from garage scientists.

Shodh Yatra in Bihar

The Shodh Yatra is organized by SRISTI twice a year. Primarily, the Shodh Yatris, walk around a distance of roughly 250 k.m or so in a span of seven to eight days.

The 22nd SY is being organised from December 29, 2008 to January 3, 2009 , will start from Motihari and conclude in Betiah. , Dr. Ambedkar Sansthan (AWCCDS), Siwan will be the hosts and local organizers.

Contact person:

S.Nadeem (Researcher). nadeem@nifindia.org (09906595175)

Innovation Camps in North East

TePP will be participating in the exhibition organised during Indian Science Congress at Shillong from 3rd January to 7th January 2009. During this period innovation camps will be organised for interaction with innovators of the region.

For details Innovators may contact:
Prof Fazal A Talukdar, National Institute of Technology, Silchar-788010 (Assam), fazal@nits.ac.in, 038422-242911, 241313

The proposals will be screened on the spot by TePP officials and TUC cordinators.

SKG Sangha

SKG Sangha headed by Dr Vidya Sagar implements projects in sustainable living. Activities include: Integrated vermicompost bioreactor systems, improved cook stoves, solar lanterns/geysers, large scale organic fertiser production etc. They received several awards like Ashden award, Tech Museum.
Contact:
SKG Sangha
#532, 2nd main road
Gandhi Nagar
Kolar 563101

Innovators camp at Hyderabad

Innovators camp scheduled on 13th December 2008 at 9.30 AM in TUC, ICRISAT campus. Interested innovators can contact:

SM Karuppanchetty,Deputy COO,ASP-ICRISAT & Manager,ABI-ICRISAT ,ICRISAT,Patancheru,AP-INDIA

Ph +040 30713414/Mob 09866396443

I will be present to discuss with innovators.

It is part of intensive drive to meet innovators across the country. I had an opportunity to meet several innovators at Chennai on 2-4th December and again at FMS, Delhi on 6th December. After Hyderabad meet, I will be meeting innovators at Bangalore on 15th and at Pune on 23rd.

Asu machine by Mallesham

Mallesham is a grass root innovator, whose machine was exhibited at Inventors of India workshop, CIIE, Ahmedabad. Normally, a weaver has to move his or her hand almost 18,000 times to prepare the yarn. As a result they are prone to get arthritis in seven to eight years. He got the inspiration to develop this machine to relieve her mother of pain and he did it with his own money.
story: TOI

Temperature Indicating Crayons

Innovator Sreedhar G Patil of Bangalore was supported under TePP for development of this product. More than 60 formulations of High Temperature Indicating Crayons (ranging from 400 deg C to 1200 Deg C) were developed.

Usage of Tempindic is simple - mark on the surface of the metal /sheet with the required Tempindic, once the surface reaches the rated temperature of the crayon, the mark would melt and show liquid smear. These crayons are free from lead, sulfur, mercury, cadmium, poly-brominated biphenyls (PPB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), hexavalent chromium (European RoHS banned substances).Each Tempindic formulation is designed to melt within the accuracy +/-1% of the rated temperature. The Crayons length would be 125 mm having dia of 8.1 mm (arch dia 9.5 mm). A few sample Tempindic Crayons are shown in the picture.

New TUC opened at Tirupati

TePP Outreach Centre was inauguration on 22nd Novemeber 2008 at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visva Vidyalayam, Tirupti. This is expected to make TePP more accessible to women innovators. Prof GSarojamma, Vice Chancellor presided over the function.
For more details : Hindu

Lunar Baby Thermometer

An illustration of creativity is `Lunar Baby Thermometer' by designer Duck Yong Kong.
source: idea connection

support to unattached researchers

TePP has no provision to support research work. The primary support is for entrepreneurs taking their innovation to market. Researchers working in universities, IITs etc get research grants from UGC,AICTE,DST,DBT,CSIR,DIT,DRDO etc. Who supports researchers not working in any research institute? Probably none. TePP recieves requests from many such unattached researchers and they are generally advised to publish their research work in peer reviewed journals as there is a possibility institute researchers may show interest in tie-upwith them .
One such researcher is Muraleekrishnan from kerala, not supported under TePP or any other govt program- working on a novel cryptography tool . His paper has now appeared in 'AmericanInstitute of Physics' and NASA digital library.

http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1052/185/1

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AIPC.1052..185M

Padmavati Women University joins TePP Network

Very few women innovators could be supported under TePP. A major initiative to redress this imbalance is taken with Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam joining TePP Network as TePP Out rech Centre.
The university with a mission
Emanicipation Of Women Through Aquisition Of Knowledge
is led by Vice Chancellor Prof G Sarojamma.

ICRISAT Agro Business Incubator joins TePP Network

Agriculture innovations get a boost with ICRISAT Agro Business incubator joining TePP Network as TePP Out reach center.
For range of service offered by ICRISAT :
http://www.agri-sciencepark.icrisat.org/agri-business-incubator.html

CSIR engineering Labs join TePP Network

TePP Network is strengthened with several engineering labs of CSIR joining TePP Network as TePP Outreach Centers. They are:
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur
Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh
Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur
North - East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat
Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata

The networking with CSIR labs adds to the techological depth and innovators needing support from any these labs can contact TePP.

Sciforum

We receive many queries from students about some basics on science and engineering. This reflects on the poor quality of teaching science & engineering and probably inaccessibility of teachers. But this is a gap TePP cannot substitute. One useful resource is Sciforum, where students post their queries. Link: http://www.sciforum.indianscience.in/

Arvind Narayan bags Best Success Story award

TePP Innovator Arvind A Narayan has been selected as one of the Best Success Stories promoted by Trec Step, Trichy by Euro Office Services, a business network of Business incubators across Europe. He collected the award from them on 23 October in Lyon, France.

Rural technologies from Bhinge Brothers

Bhinge Brothers offers a complete irrigation package to farmers.This package consist of simple and low cost pond liners for collection and storage of water during rains , low cost flexi storage tanks with simple gravity microirrigation kits of various types and Ecoflo Pump.

This Ecoflo Pump weighs just 12 kgs such that even a child can carry it to any place and by simple stepping action can pump upto 5000ltrs of water from a depth of upto 7mtrs to a height of upto 15 mtrs. The Ecoflo pump's piston cylinder and manifold assembly is made in reinforced plastic which makes it very smooth to operate and also gives very long operating life. The use of special microirrigation kits for vegetable and horticulture plants further ensures the best yield with minimum water.

The products include:

• Plastic sheets -pond liners for rain water harvesting
• Ecoflo Treadle pump
• Micro irrigation kits for growing vegetables, horticulture crops

Contact:

Naren Bhinge

Bhinge Brothers,

Nasik, India

Mobile- +919823067081

solar-powered refrigeration system

Promethean Power Systems is developing a solar-powered refrigeration system for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid and partially electrified areas of developing countries. Their refrigeration technology will enable food suppliers to store and preserve perishable food items—such as milk, fruits and vegetables—without the need for expensive diesel-powered generators. The refrigeration technology is works with thermoelectric cooling based on the Peltier effect discovered by Jean Peltier in 1834. When a current is passed through a circuit of two dissimilar conductors, there will be a rise or fall in temperature at the junction depending on the direction of the current flow.

Will thermoelectric cooling emerge as a disruptive technology that will some day displace conventional, vapor-compressor refrigeration in consumer and commercial applications throughout the world.

13th International Human Genome Meeting

TePP Innovators Dr Arup Dutta and Dr G.Prakash participated in the Exhibition held during HUGO's 13th International Human Genome Meeting, September 27th - 30th, 2008 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad. TePP participation is coordinated by TUC, ANU, Guntur.

"Solekshaw”, the solar-electric rickshaw

The Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dikshit, launched “Solekshaw”, the solar-electric rickshaw for eco-friendly urban transport, at a function organized on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti near the Chandni Chowk Metro Station on 2nd October in the august presence of Shri Kapil Sibal, the Vice-President, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR and Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences. Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, the Director General, CSIR was among the other dignitaries who were present on the occasion. This innovation has come from CMERI, Durgapur, the lab that has given indegeneous tractors.

2008 Global Development Marketplace: Sustainable Agriculture for Development Competition

TREC-STEP has been awarded a prestigious World Bank grant at the 2008 Global Development Marketplace: Sustainable Agriculture for Development Competition, at Washington DC on the 26^th September 2008. Mr. R.M.P. Jawahar, received the Award. The Project titled, ‘Mini Cold Storage Ventures’, aims to establish a cold chain of PPP enterprises among our trained youth (from SKILLS), using the latest technology in refrigeration, adapted to the needs of small farmers.They are ranked 4th among the 22 winners, from out of 1800 applicants.

award for Navaraj Yadav

The tamilnadu government awarded the Best scholor award to Dr.P.S.Navaraj, Reader in Zoology , Yadava college, Madurai for his outstanding contribution to teaching and research.He is TePP innovator too.

TePP in Biotech news

Biotech news of August 2008 carried an article on TePP. Download from
http://www.biotechnews.in/

CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) - 2008

Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, DG, CSIR on the occasion of CSIR Foundation day, announced bestowing of CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) - 2008 jointly upon Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow for “Biovillage strategy for agri-business of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants” and Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar for “Innovations in the area of salt for rural development”.

Providing details on the innovations made by both the institutions, Prof. Brahmachari mentioned that shrinking land holdings, decreasing productivity of Indian soils and increasing input costs to agriculture are resulting into diminished returns from conventionally grown crops. The backbone of Indian economy, the traditional agriculture is gradually proving to be uneconomical. There is a felt need thus to improve strategically the agri-economics for rural farmer. This is possible only by augmenting and introducing some economically viable specialty crops along with the traditional agricultural crops. CIMAP has gainfully utilized Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) for this purpose by conceptualizing “Biovillage Mechanism” and operationalizing it strategically. Varieties and agrotechnologies of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) have been developed and disseminated, aiming at sustainable production and commercialization of these plants in rural areas. This has helped in economic upliftment of farmers in a big way.

CIMAP has backed the concept of Biovillages by developing several new cultivars of mint, artemisia, geranium, patchouli and khus suiting to diverse agro-climates. Linkages with industry have also been established for necessary buy back of the produce from farm itself thus benefiting farmers directly. A dependable complete package for managing distillation waste, farm waste, weed waste etc. has also been developed and integrated to generate biofertilizer. CIMAP’s Biovillage Concept has inputs of end-to-end innovation for benefit of rural farmers.

Explaining CSMCRI innovation, Prof. Brahmachari further added that out of the total 20 million tons salt produced in the country annually, about 6 million tons is produced in the rural sector by the marginal salt producers. The salt produced by marginal salt manufacturers is of inferior quality due to the presence of higher amounts of certain ionic impurities and other insolubles. The rural manufacturers also lack scientific knowledge of salt manufacturing. Thus, this type of salt fetches very low price.

CSMCRI has developed various processes for the recovery of high purity salt by rural salt producers addressing the problems faced by the rural salt manufacturers. Processes for removal of impurities through heap washing and desulphatation, utilizing distiller waste liquor of soda ash plants which otherwise poses the problem of disposal and creates environmental pollution have been developed. CSMCRI has specifically seen that no additional time or infrastructure is required to implement the processes developed and significant improvements in salt purity and whiteness are brought about. With CSMCRI’s innovation, even rural salt producers are producing salt of purity >99.5% and whiteness index of 87–91. Rural salt producers of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Orissa have greatly benefited from these efforts. Further, CSMCRI innovations have enabled the rural salt producers to enhance their income by many folds. Being easy to adopt, eco friendly and cost effective, these innovations can be implemented without any risk in any rural salt works irrespective of the source of brine and the type of salt works.

Smokeless Chula

The challenge of improving chula (stove) attracted many designers. Karma Lendup Bhutia is designer from Philips team that came out with `Sampoorna' and `Saral'. A new concept was also born `Philionthrophy by Design'. Indeed, MNCs like Philips can contribute more to society by improving common designs rather than any amount of charity under CSR.

TePP innovator becomes IIPC Champion of Champion

TePP innovator Kranti Kiran Vistakula, promoter of start-up Dhama Apparel Innovations was declared IIPC (India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2008) Champion of Champion. Also in India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2008 scholar sparks , TePP innovator Hamsa Nandini bagged 2nd prize where as another TePP innovator Tapendu Mandal received 3rd prize. The prizes were distributed on 18th by Hon.Minister Kapil Sibal.

TePP innovators at IIT Mumbai

Innovator Murugan of Banana Fiber machine sent me this photo taken in IIT, Mumbai. All the 40 participants of TePP Training program stayed in IIT guest house from 2nd to 6th Sept. This was possible courtesy, Prof Amarnath. He also organised lectures by SINE incubatees and faculty.

Laser basics

TePP receives many proposals on Laser applications. DRDO scientists are maintaining a web site , a rich resource in Laser. Visit:
http://www.worldoflasers.com/

Turn ideas into products

A tool for all creative people. Ponoko provides you tools to create designs and sell them too on internet. See: http://www.ponoko.com/

Enviro energy systems

Enviro Energy Systems is a specialist Process & Environmental Consulting organization started 18 years ago by Dr.V.Ravichandran Ph.D.(USA). Dr.V.Ravichandran was associated with Ford Motor Co.USA, Univ. of Notre Dame USA, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras. Has 8 inventions in the area of pollution control and process engineering to his credit.. The main purpose of this organization is design, operations and management of technologically challenging chemical and environmental projects. Automatic Effluent Dispenser system is one of their R&D product. Dr Ravichandran authored `Compost Technology' a practical guide on Compost- yard design,operation and marketing.

Training program at SPJIMR

The 5 day training program from 2nd to 6th Sept was attended by TePP innovators , Network partners and innovation managers, numbering about 40. The senior faculty had prepared their lectures keeping in mind the background of the participtants. The take home for innovators was - taking innovation to market requires a combination of Technology potency and Business advantage.

Biocontrol Strategies for Eco-Friendly Pest Management

Department of Biotechnology in association with the National Informatics Centre has now designed and developed a comprehensive web site on Biocontrol Strategies for Eco-Friendly Pest Management (http://www.dbtbiopesticides.nic.in). The site was inaugurated by the Secretary, Department of Biotechnology on 23^rd June, 2008.

The site provides the information on :

Biocontrol Agents

Botanical and Novel Biopesticides

Research Achievements

Upcoming events

Resource Directory of Scientists, Manufactures, Company List

Ongoing and completed projects so far

Referral Laboratories

Guidelines for Registering Biopesticides

Meetings at BHU

Please follow the link given below for downloding event photographs of 88th TSC meet at IT,BHU, Varanasi:

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Integrated use of Neem and Sea Algae in eco-freindly management of crop pests

TePP innovator, R.Augustine successfully developed and demonstrated `SEAMIC' which is a combination of Neem kernel extract, Seaweed extract and Potassium Humate. The product was successfully tested on Brinjal, Grape,paddy,groundnut,onion crops.

Training TePP innovators at SPJIMR, Mumbai

TePP, SPJIMR and SINE are organising a 5 day training program to TePP innovators and TUC coordinators from 2nd Sept 2008 to 6th Sept 2008. This is a free service provided by faculty of SPJIMR to TePP. There will also be a trading platform bringing together innovators and family business managers.

TUC coordinators meet on 22nd August 2008

All TePP officials, TePP Screening Committee members and TePP outreach center coordinators meet periodically to share experiences and learning. Next meeting in this series is scheduled on 22nd August at BHU, Varanasi.