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

[Chan Mahanta]

That is excellent! I wish Bharali many more successes.

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At 10:00 AM +0530 9/5/06, Manoj Das 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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