With water table going down and length of rope to pull water increasing, women (who have to often perform this arduous task) have to face a lot of drudgery while pulling water through conventional pulley. Many times while pulling water, women/men feel tired and have to pause to catch their breath. Bucket some times fall into the well. Indian civilization developed a bunch of hooks to get such a bucket out of the well but could not devise any mechanism so that bucket does not fall into the well. Honey Bee network had posed this problem to a network of innovators and then Amrutbhai came out with this innovation more than a decade ago. He attached a stopper over the pulley so that by the backward movement of rope, lever will press it automatically and would not let it slip. Now the person can take the rest as long as one wishes, without having to keep holding the rope. The innovation is available in three models - Ganga, Narmada and Saraswati.
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For this innovation he won Asian Innovation Award in 2000 and a National Award in NIF’s First National Competition for Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in 2001. An attempt was made to diffuse this pulley with the help of SEWA in a few hundred cases. Much more remains to be done.
Apart from these Amrutbhai has made numerous other devices like, Aaruni Cart and many other innovations like Janak Santi- multipurpose agricultural attachment, Mini Kaliyu (Groundnut digger) and Wheat sowing box among other things. |
