U S Awasthi awards IFFCO Innovation scholarship for today's Rural India
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Mr. Subhash Singh from Fatehpur village in Mirzapur district of UP was declared the recipient of IFFCO Rural Innovation Scholarship. He was felicitated and awarded Rs. 1 lakh scholarship by IFFCO in a function organised in Lucknow.
Mr. Singh's idea was selected from more than 3000 entries received for the scholarship. His idea is to contain the heat loss in a brick kiln, thereby reducing emissions of pollutants by upto 20 % . The idea has manifold benefits , if implemented by a brick kiln owner, it will reduce their investment by 20-25%, expedite the process, contain the heat loss into ground earth thereby reducing the ground-water loss, besides reduction in air pollution.
There are more than 18 thousand brick kilns in UP alone and emissions from these impact the ambient air quality amongst other alarming hazards to residents and environment. While the pollution in urban areas make the headlines, low quality of air in rural areas often go unnoticed. Subhash Singh saw this as major challenge and took it upon himself to build a solution.
Receiving the award, Mr Subhash expressed happiness that finally he has the correct platform to build, implement & scale his Idea.
On this occasion, Dr. U. S. Awasthi, MD & CEO, IFFCO, said, "The need of India today is the innovation for bringing economic and social parity for people in rural India. IFFCO will continue to encourage such entrepreneurs through out rural India for bridging the gap."He further said the large number of the applications showed the "extent of desire among farmers and rural youth to create this change".
The
UP
Pollution
Control
Board
had
acknowledged
and
recognized
the
efforts
and
will
chalk
out
plans
to
test
&
validate
Subhash's
study
at
various
Institutes
of
repute,
like
CBRI
Roorke,
IIT's.
Prof
J.P
Chakraborty
IIT
(BHU)
who
mentored
Mr.
Subhash
Singh
in
his
innovation,
said,
"It
is
indeed
a
great
pleasure
to
partner
with
Mr.
Subhash
Chandra
Singh
in
his
innovation.
IIT
(BHU)
is
helping
him
patent
his
innovation
and
I
am
a
representative
from
IIT
(BHU)
who
is
directly
working
with
him.
Once
the
patent
is
granted,
we
are
confident
that
we
will
be
able
to
commercialize
the
Process
Patent
and
this
will
reduce
atmospheric
pollution,
reduce
the
requirement
of
coal
in
brick
fields
(by
reducing
the
heat
loss)
and
increase
the
profit
of
the
brick-field
owners.
Today,
I
am
very
glad
that
the
effort
put
in
by
Mr.
Singh
is
being
recognized
by
IFFCO
and
he
is
being
awarded
by
them."
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