An inexpensive solar cooker with absolutely simple construction has been developed by Shri Niranjan Khatri, which exploits the free-of-cost energy to take care of routine cooking needs of the people. The construction is also very simple; anybody can make the cooker using easily available materials. In this age of fuel shortage and mounting inflation, this innovation is a boon to common people.
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Simple, Inexpensive Solar Cooker
Open Source / CommunityAn inexpensive solar cooker with absolutely simple construction has been developed by Shri Niranjan Khatri, which exploits the free-of-cost energy to take care of routine cooking needs of the people. The construction is also very simple; anybody can make the cooker using easily available materials. In this age of fuel shortage and mounting inflation, this innovation is a boon to common people.
Head Load Reducing Device
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In many remote villages of India and many other developing countries, women have to carry water vessels from well (or any other source of water) to their residence and cover a great distance several times to meet daily water requirement of their family for drinking, washing etc.
Women carry this load on their head, which can result in pain in their head. Also, the load can neither be put on the head nor can be put down without any help from some one else. This compulsion makes it very difficult for these women to take rest enroute to their residence, as they cannot put the vessel down even if they are tired and feel like taking rest.
Kittanal111
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One of the major activities in nurseries, bag filling, is a tedious and expensive task. One had to use the scoop several times to fill one bag, thereby consuming time and involving extra labour. Khimjibhai, retired School teacher wanted to speed up the process so as to increase daily wages of poor women engaged in this task. His meticulous observation of the process yielded a simple yet intelligent idea, which gave birth to ‘Kittanal’. It is a piece of hollow PVC tube with one end slightly broadened and the other end cut at 450 to the axis. The tapered end is inserted into the polythene bag and held over the PVC tube and scooping the other end in the soil fills the bag in one scoop.
Gum Scrapper
Open Source / CommunityIn villages, rural women and children are used to collect the gum from the tress as a part of their income generation activity. The main sources of the gum are the thorny trees “Prosopis juliflora “- locally known as “Gando Baval” in
