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A cycle that runs on water and land, a scooter-powered flour mill, a solar mosquito killer, a cycle-powered washing machine -- these are just a few of the over 100,000 outstanding innovations that have come from school dropouts and poor people from rural India.
How has your experience been working with rural innovators?
Working with innovators has been one of the most exciting things in my life. The rural innovators have the spirit to innovate and come up with solutions overcoming their problems.
Despite the lack of education, power and money, the grassroots innovations exemplify the struggle to find a better and cheaper solution to address our problems.
There is a lot to learn from their lives and achievements. It has been an enriching and enlightening experience. These tribals are the true pride of India.
They have so many great innovations. I found the villages in Bastar district to be one of the best in hygiene and sanitation. Here, a sick person is cremated after his death, while a healthy person who dies is buried. This is a good, healthy practice. Here is a lesson for all of us to follow.
The youth do not want to join Maoists, they are so talented that we should be able to guide them in the right direction. Unfortunately, the police and administration are indifferent to them. They are given no opportunity to exhibit their skills.
We are now initiating a programme to bring out their talent and make them leaders in their own right.
The government is not investing in places like this, there are not given any opportunity to come up in life. So their anger is not misplaced.
They have developed a medicinal variety of paddy. If we add such products to out nutraceuticals market, this will have such a huge impact. This agro-bio diversity should be catalogued and marketed. I have talks with the National Gene Bank but nothing has happened yet.
There are so many ideas that can drive the Indian economy. Our institutes should pay more attention in developing products that have mass appeal.
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