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Think positive change India......

Soundproof hammer! Be positive India Keep thinking positive

Name: Prithwish Dutta, Class 12, Don Bosco High & Technical School

Location: Howrah, West Bengal

An idea of a soundproof hammer, which would not make any sound when struck against any object. The impact energy would be absorbed in the hammer itself, which will be covered with a foam like substance.

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Portable latch for restrooms.... What and IDIA ..... Keep it up Be positive

Name: PS Senthur Balaji, Class 12, Maharishi International Residential School, Kanchipuram

Location: Erode, Tamil Nadu

An idea of a latch useful for people travelling frequently or in rural areas, which can be used for locking a door temporarily. This can be used in public restrooms or other places that lack latches.

Body suit for Divyang..... Great innovation ... Keep India thinking positive

Name: Ayush Gupta and Arnov Sharma, Class 12, Delhi Public School

Location: Haridwar, Uttrakhand

An mechanical exoskeleton or suit, which can support a physically disabled person, and aid orthopedic patients.

HAWA BADALNE DO... I Salute friends.... Keep India positive

Sheela Sharma

Sheela paints the world right with her left foot by depicting human emotions like empathy, love and bonding in her paintings. Sheela is a talented foot artist. After losing her hands and almost one foot in a train accident, she came across an artist in Delhi who used to paint without hands. This is what inspired her to give a shot painting with her foot. She quotes MF Hussain and Amrita Shergil as her influences.

Smokeless Chulhas....... Lets Women change their position ....

Smokeless chulhas: As per an NDTV report, over 140 million households in India still use chulhas with wood, cow dung or charcoal being used as fuel. Given it is mostly on women that the burden of cooking falls on, not only does this lead to indoor pollution that impacts women’s health but also adversely impacts the environment. Project Aanch undertaken by Enactus, a group of students from IIT Delhi, set out to solve this issue. Although “smokeless chulhas” also work on wood and cow-dung, they emit less smoke and use 1/3rd wood an average chulha consumes.

Water Wheel ! Let them change India..... Hawa Badalne Do........

Water Wheel: One of the key problems faced by women in rural India is the long trek to fetch water that has both physical and socio-economic repercussions. The Water Project highlighted this problem and took up the task of providing an innovative solution to this problem. “Indian women can take up to six trips a day to gather and transport water. These walks in rural regions can average ten miles a day, carrying up to fifteen liters every trip. The women load jars or buckets on their heads to carry water. The heat increases their exhaustion, and they’re removed from being able to make an income, better care for their children, or in a younger girl’s circumstance, be able to get a proper education.”

Designed by Wello, an American social venture company to facilitate the transportation of water in a more efficient and hygienic manner. It consists of a round 50-litre container made of plastic that makes it possible to roll down water instead of physically carrying it from the water source.

Solar pulse thresher..... Think India Positive

Name: Dipankar Das, Class 12, Govt. Senior Secondary School, Diglipur

Location: North Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

A device for efficient threshing of matured pulses (grains, green gram, black gram, arhar, horse gram) without using electricity or fossil fuels, thereby reducing the harvesting cost.

Rural school students made film on water conservation screened at Nehru Science Centre Mumbai and got merit certificate.

Bandana Bandana - Ketto

Bandana Bandana - Ketto

No cost low cost science learning by Sadaiv Samarpit

India appoints its first Transgender College Principal

The state of transgenders in India may be improving for the better now, after all. After the Trans Rights Bill unanimously passed India’s Upper House Of Parliament last month, Jorhat college opened its doors to the third gender, Padmini Prakash became India’s first transgender TV News Anchor and Madhu Kinnar became the country’s first transgender Mayor, another encouraging news on the acceptance of transgenders has come up.

In a very forward-looking and open-minded move, Manabi Bandopadhyay has been appointed as the next principal for the Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal. She will be joining work from June 9.

Manabi was born as Somnath Banerjee in 1966, in Naiheti in West Bengal. She had two sisters and despite being a ‘son’, she insisted on learning Indian classical dance forms which are at times reserved only for girls. She has been counseled a lot in her life, back in times when homosexuality was still considered a mental disorder, and was told to give up on the idea of identifying herself as a girl.

However, she studied hard, got a first class degree and became a professor of Bengali literature. She is currently an Associate Professor atVivekananda Satobarshiki Mahavidyalaya. She is known for her bestselling novel Endless bondage.

Her appointment has so far had a positive reaction, from the ministry, college administration and students. State education minister Partha Chatterjee told the TOI that he is happy about the decision but he does not interfere as these are calls taken by the college service commission, which is aware of the ministry’s broad-mindedness.

Ujjal Biswas, Chairman of the college governing body, also said that the choice was influenced by the need of a strong principal who could run things smoothly. Rattan Lal Hangloo, Vice-Chancellor of the Kalyani University to which Krishnagar is affiliated, said that he considers Manabi a fine human being, an able administrator and a good academician and that he hopes that this decision proves to be empowering for other individuals of the transgender community.

Manabi also gave the college a surprise visit on May 26, along with her adopted son, Debasish Manabiputro and her friend, Jyoti Samanto, who is also a transgender. She said that she wanted to meet and greet her colleagues personally before joining in, since she had just heard their voices.

Source: Youtube

Her appointment has come as a very good and positive stance of the Bengal education ministry, but Manabi has not reached this degree of acceptance without struggle. In one of her earlier postings in Jhargram college, she was ostracized and forced to move out of the quarters meant for faculty. After her sex realignment surgery in 2003, they also tried to fire her on the grounds that they had hired Somnath and not Manabi. However, she went to the Western Bengal Human Rights Commission and they helped her out. She also had to fight numerous court cases wherein she was called names, but she emerged triumphant in each obstacle.

Since then she has started a Bengali transgender group and also is the editor of a magazine about transgenders that they have started to print, called the Aba-manab which means sub human, to reflect the opinions and thinking of the people about transgenders. This appointment is perhaps an acknowledgement of her struggle and spirit in a roundabout way. Let us cross our fingers and await the transformations that this might lead to

She lost both arms in a train accident last year and yet managed to clear her HSC exams this year. Don't loose HOPE. Be positive

It was a tragedy for Monica More last year. She was going to board a local train from Ghatkopur, Mumbai on Januray 11, 2014. Instead, she fell in a pit and a train ran over her arms. She was just 16 years old.

Fellow commuters did help her out. Monica was rushed to a hospital but the doctors were not able to reattach her upper limbs by any means. But she received a lot of public support and her accident opened up a lot of debates about safety related issues in public transport. The excellent news is that she is coping well with the tragedy that struck her.

Jine Ki Raah Yehi Hai Sahi.........Think Positive..Change Society

Jindagi Jine Ka Sahi Tarika - WOWJINDAGI!

Photograph Courtesy - Anup Harne 

Watch with medicine delivery system- Innovated by students of secondary class . Keep thinking positive India

Names: Navjot Kaur, Class 11, Senior Secondary Model School, Chandigarh; and Vaishnavi Patra, Class 9, Odisha Demonstrated Multipurpose Public School, Khorda, Orissa

An idea of a watch, which can store and timely deliver appropriate dose of medicine to the person.

Foot operated door opening mechanism. Innovated by students.

Name: Jayprakash B Rathwa, Class 12, Shree Gram Shala Grambharti, Gandhinagar, Gujarat; and Tanmay Takale, Class 12, Shri Mhalsakant Vidyalya

Location: Pune,  Maharashtra

An idea to have a system using which a door can be opened by activating a sensor using a leg.

This may be useful for the physically disabled or someone carrying load in both hands. It can also be used in public toilets.

Machine to pluck Tendu leaves- Innovation of school student.

Name: Bharat, Class 11, Shashkiya Uchhtar Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Bacheli

Location: Dakshin Bastar, Chhattisgarh

Collecting Tendu leaves is one of the important sources of income in the tribal regions.

The leaves are plucked manually, which is a tedious process. Bharat's idea is to have a machine to pluck Tendu leaves from the tree.

It would have blades for cutting the leaves, a container to store leaves and a sensor based sorter to segregate leaves according to their size.

Gas lighter with gas leak alarm- Our little innovator. Good Luck India ...Keep it up

Name: Nilesh Ras, Class 9, DAV Inter High School

Location: Patna, Bihar

A lot of mishaps occur when cooking gas regulator has been left on accidentally or due to a gas leak. Nilesh's idea is to have a gas lighter, which can sense and indicate gas leakage before it is lighted thereby preventing accidents.

Ocean Water Renew to get fresh water and energy......,

The WateRenew is a simple and efficient desalination process, consisting of two parts:

1. Wave Wings to harness energy from the water particles' elliptical motion, which can be later converted into electricity. These wave wings power cutting-edge desalination plants.

2. Graphene filters replace existing filters in desalination plants,  reducing energy needs by 99%
While current desalination plants are expensive and can cause air pollution, the WateRenew is eco-friendly, saving money, and releasing no extra carbon dioxide.

Innovative Dustbin made by school students.....Keep thinking positive India..

Name: Prem Ranjan Singh, Shivani Singh, Ankush Pal, Class 9, Divya Jyoti English High School

Location: Daman, Daman & Diu

Concerned with the sight of overflowing garbage bins, the three friends have come with an idea of a dustbin with separate slots for bio-degradable and non bio-degradable waste with a message sending facility to the municipality once dustbin is filled up to a preset level.

Looms for differently able person- Small Idea provide BIG change.....

Name: R Elakkiya, Class 6 and R Pavithra, Class 9, SRC Memorial Matriculation

Location: Erode, Tamil Nadu

The two sisters have come up with loom for lower limbed physically challenged. In their loom they have replaced the pedal operated system with a motor and a gearbox attached to a pulley mechanism.

Reversible benches at public places. Innovation of Students....

Name: Simran Chadha, Class 8, BCM Arya Public School

Location: Ludhiana, Punjab

Simran's idea is to have reversible benches at public places so that if they become wet (due to rains) or dirty, they can be rotated using a handle so that the other side, which comes up can be used.

Alert system for bus driver. Innovation comes from Students. Keep it up India....

Names: Pradyumna Kumar Pal, class 7, Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Unit-3, Khordha, Orissa; and Rahul Kumar, class 9, Rajkiya Balak Uchh Vidyalaya, Patna, Bihar

Sometimes accidents occur when a passenger puts his body part outside the bus window. Pradyumna and Rahul have independently conceived an idea of an alerting system for the bus driver, which enables them to know which passenger has put his hand or head outside the bus window.

Umbrella for more than five person- Idea innovated by Student.

Name: Tarna Joy Tripura, class 6, Kabi Guro Rabindra Nath Smiti

Location: Dhalai, Tripura

Inspiration behind the idea: Many times, it becomes difficult for more than one person to share an umbrella during rains. Young Tunnab has given an idea of an umbrella, which could be held by two children from two sides under which other children can stand and thus go to school together without getting wet.

Students innovation - Water filter/purifier at source. Good Luck Children Keep India ahead...

Names: Soring Lepcha, Class 4, and Subash Prodhan, Class 5, Lingzya Junior High School

Place: North Sikkim, Sikkim

Inspiration behind the idea: Most people today prefer to use a water filter/purifier at their home.

Both the children have given idea to have filter/purifier at the source of water so that everyone has access to clean water without having to make an investment in purchasing a filter/purifier.

Soring's idea is to have a centralised purification system at the point of distribution like water tank while Subash's idea is to have such purifiers attached to public taps.