Gamechangers For Villages: 5 Frugal Innovations That Could Transform Rural India!
24 April 2019 2:00 PM IST
It is 2019, but residents of rural India still lack access to some of life’s basic necessities?clean drinking water, groundwater for crops, healthcare, education and electricity?to name a few. Fortunately, in the last few years, several useful inventions have changed the lives of people in rural India, proving that�ordinary people are indeed capable of�providing solutions […] More
- 1) Taraltec: Purifying contaminated groundwater
- Anjan Mukherjee, a former marine chief engineer, has developed the Taraltec Disinfection Reactor, a ‘fit and forget’ device, which converts contaminated water from borewell handpumps at the source to clean water, by killing 99% of the microbes present in it.
- 2) Shuddham: A low-cost, zero electricity water purifier
- 3) Ecozen: Keeps farm produce fresh for longer
- Through their startup Ecozen, Devendra Gupta, Prateek Singhal, and Vivek Pandey developed Ecofrost, a solar-powered cold storage unit.
- 4) Drone Ambulances
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