[Assam] [NorthEastIndia] State innovator named for national award (The Assam Tribune, 05.01.2011)

[Pranab Doley]

Feeling great that one fellow Assamese is being  named for Meritorious
Invention Award.


Regards

Pranab J Doley
http://www.pranabdoley.com



On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Buljit Buragohain <buluassam at yahoo.co.in>wrote:

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> State innovator named for national award
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> Staff Reporter
>  GUWAHATI, Jan 4 – Working silently in a flood-ravaged remote corner of the
> State, innovator Uddhav Bharali, a trained mechanical engineer, has brought
> laurels for the State once again. He has been nominated by the National
> Research Development Corporation’s (NRDC) ‘Meritorious Invention Award’ for
> the year 2009 for his pomegranate de-seeder machine.
>
> Meanwhile, Bharali has innovated a low-cost green tea manufacturing machine
> that can produce 25 kgs of green tea in three hours’ time. The cost of the
> machine is expected to be within Rs 2 lakhs and it comprises two parts—a
> steamer and a dehydrating dryer. With this device, Bharali has so far
> innovated 92devices.
>
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> Talking to this newspaper over phone from his North Lakhimpur residence,
> Bharali said that he is flooded with orders from the small tea growers to
> supply the new device. However, he would require some time to get himself
> prepared for commercial production of the device, which can be operated by
> three persons and maintains the quality of the green tea intact, Bharali
> said.
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> The Feature Group of Companies, which runs the Big Bazaar shopping mall
> chain, has selected the domestic type of Bharali’s pomegranate de-seeder for
> marketing. For the purpose, the company has asked Bharali to supply five
> samples of the device for displaying at its metropolitan malls. The
> innovator is supplying these samples of the device to the Feature Group
> shortly.
>
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> It needs mention here that pomegranate juice has emerged as one of the most
> important health drinks these days. A domestic type pomegranate de-seeder
> will cost the buyer around Rs 3,000, said Bharali.
>
>
> Each of the green tea producing machines will be available to the buyers at
> around Rs 2 lakh.
>
>
> The steamer part of the device can be run with firewood or LPG cylinder.
> Its de-hydrating dryer removes the water from the steamed leaves and dries
> them up keeping their green colour intact.
>
>
> The device developed by Bharali is able to produce quality tea.
>
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> Green tea is also regarded to be a fabulous source of antioxidant. Green
> tea, because of its high production cost is at present priced higher. This
> has made it unaffordable for the common tea consumers.
>
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> This machine is expected to help small tea growers produce green tea
> without any big factory. It requires only a small room, 1.5hp power, which
> can be derived from domestic connection.
>
>
> Some Nilgiri tea planters initially requested Bharali for this device. Now
> many Assam small tea growers have been placing their orders with him, said
> the innovator, who could develop the device within a month’s time. He has 53
> assignments in his hand.
>
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> (The Assam Tribune, 05.01.2011)
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