[Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-AT

[Manoj Das]

Hi Ramda

I read about him today in AT. Although I belong to NLP, haven't heard about
him. They are the unsung heroes.

May be they should be given exposure by our NRAs for upgrading their skills.

Rgds
Manoj




On 9/5/06, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Manoj,
>
> Thank you for forwarding this piece of good news. Bhuban da is right. I
> read the AT and the Sentinel fairly regularly (on the net), but have not
> seen any mention of Bharali over the years. Must have just missed it!
>
> But Bharali does deserve kudos for the innovations.
>
> --Ram da
>
>
>  On 9/4/06, Manoj Das <dasmk2k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  *Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines
> *By Ajit Patowary
>  GUWAHATI, Sept 4 – Working out the problems in a small workshop at North
> Lakhimpur town in the State's flood-ravaged Lakhimpur district, this
> 40-year-old innovation wizard has so far designed and manufactured 40 long
> sought-for machines. He is now a technical expert-cum-role model for the
> National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of the country.
>
> He is Uddhab Kumar Bharali, a mechanical engineer of the 1988 batch of the
> Institute of Engineers (India). He started his UKB Agrotech, a house-machine
> design and research firm, around 1992 on his own, spending some hopeless
> years running after those in the corridors of power seeking support to set
> up a machine designing-cum-training firm. His first machine was the modern
> dheki, the re-designed Assamese paddy grinder, which could be operated by
> turning a wheel.
>
> But to emerge as the real innovator, he had to borrow an amount of Rs
> 30,000 from a private moneylender at a monthly interest rate of 10 per cent
> on the principal amount. In the meantime, he had to shoulder the burden of a
> family loan of Rs 11 lakh. With the amount he borrowed, he developed the
> green arecanut-peeling machine in 2001.
>
> Bharali had to accept the challenge of developing the arecanut peeler
> thrown by the then Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the Gyan-NE, the NE
> branch of the NIF, to secure NIF support. Till then developing a green
> arecanut peeler was thought to be impossible by the innovators worldwide.
> Bharali could develop the machine within 20 days. The innovation of Bharali
> was so appreciated that when its live demonstration was held on the Guwahati
> IIT campus, Karnataka-based Dharma Technology acquired its technology for a
> period of five years since 2001, for the state of Karnataka. The same
> company also procured the machine for marketing in Singapore and Chile, said
> Bharali.
>
> Then came the cassava-peeling machine in early 2002. This machine has a
> tremendous demand in South Africa and Central American countries. As, in
> these countries, which have been facing famine-like situations, cassava
> flour is considered to be the best nutritious food.
>
> By this time, he was successful in receiving the support of the NIF. And
> with such support, Bharali started working on a series of machines and thus
> came the 'Safed Musli Peeler', the 'Passion-fruit Gel Extractor', 'Aloebera
> Gel Extractor', the 'Dhoop Making Machines', the 'Bamboo-craft Machines',
> the 'Paddy Thrasher', the 'Stevia Pulveriser', the 'Garlic-peeling Machine'
> and finally the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The last named machine has found
> market all over the world.
>
> Bharali is the first man in the world to develop the 'Cassava Peeler', the
> 'Arecanut Peeler' and the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The Discovery Channel
> telecast his innovation of the third machine in January last. In his list of
> innovations, one more machine—'Jatropha De-seeding Machine'— was also added
> recently.
>
> Now Bharali is engaged in developing a device that can mechanise bamboo
> splitting for weaving tarza walls. The NEDFi has sponsored this venture.
>
> Bharali has by now received 33 national and international assignments,
> which include the ones for sugarcane-peeling, mango-peeling, mini tea plant
> with the capacity to produce 100 kgs of processed tea per day and bamboo
> artisan craft machine. A company from Nairobi has placed the order for the
> mini tea plant with him, while he received the order for the bamboo artisan
> craft machine from a South African company through the Beijing-based
> International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. He has also received several
> other assignments from International Fund for Agricultural Development.
>
> Of late, he has received an assignment for manufacturing a ginger-peeling
> machine from Nepal through the NIF and another assignment for a
> potato-peeling and slicing machine from the UK, Bharali said.
>
> He attributes the popularity of his innovations to their designs that make
> more production possible with less consumption of power. Moreover, his
> machines do not require any foundation, he said.
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