UnnatBharathAbhiyan – 2018

UBA team along with NSS team visited five villages Gowdavelli, Gnanapoor, Basuregadi,

D. Pochampally, Bachupallyand identified the problems.

Gowdavelli, Gnanapoor village problems

1. Hammering Process (Blacksmithy)

The problem which we have found that while working, three peoples are required

for forging the metal, hammering, bend and cut additionally it takes more time.

Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture,

sculpture, tools, agricultural implements and cooking utensils.

2. Tank water overflow

In the village, there is a water tank which gets overflows frequently due to not

monitoring it all the time. Because of that water gets wasted. We need solution where

once water crosses the level it should get turn off automatically.

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3. Waste management

Dumping garbage is the problem that people are facing in the village. Once in a

week municipal people come to clean the garbage. Moreover, there is no proper

place to dump the garbage.

It is very critical and pathetic situation we have come across because it may spread

many different types of diseases.

4. Buffalo waste removing equipment

Mr. Nagesh from Gowdavelli village has a buffalo farm. He was facing difficulty

while collecting the waste that takes more time. Due to his traditional method of

cleaning the dung, he gets physical drawback like back and leg pain.

5. Spraying fertilizer

Mr. NarshingRao from Gowdavelli village is a farmer having field. While spraying

fertilizer, he has to carry heavy weight tank on his back. Due to which he is getting

back pain and skin allergic reaction. Spraying an enormous farm takes time.

6. Milk sucker

Mr. Nagesh from Gowdavelli village is having buffalo farm. Selling Milk is the

source of income for him. Daily suction buffalo milk is that the time intense task and

needed additional efforts too.

7. Paddy cutter

The available paddy cutter is heavy weight and large in size and it not easy to carry

from one place to another place.

8. Bus stop seating arrangement

In Gowdaveeli village proper seating arrangement is not there in the bus stop and

cleanliness not maintained.

9. No street light in village

10. Borewell in not in working condition

11. Climbing palm tree and collecting kallu

While climbing palm tree he is facing the problem while getting up and down.

12. Stitching machine

While working in stitching machine the community partner getting back pain.

13. Electrical polls sagging down

14. No proper road

Basuregadi village problem

1. Ms. Amrutha working as a Anganavadi teacher is facing the problems in proper

security for students due to road and washroom not clean properly.

D. Pochampally village problem

1. Road problem

2. Mosquito problem

Bachupally village problems

1. Portable house

2. No proper road

3. Mosquito problem

UnnatBharathAbhiyanGramSabha – 15-08-2018

Engineering Project in Community Service (EPICS) UBA team with students organized

Gram Sabhas in adopted villages Gowdavelli and D. Pochampally.

Gowdavelli Village Gram Sabha

Engineering Project in Community Service (EPICS), UBA faculty and students organized

gramashaba in Gowdavelli village and we discussed problems in the villages with Secretary

Ms. Sunitha, Panchayath members and villagers. We discussed the major problem in the

villages which students can solved. We discussed about UnnatBharathAbhiyan scheme.

D. Pochampally Village Gram Sabha

Engineering Project in Community Service, UBA Faculty and students organized gram

sabha in Gowdavelli village and we discussed problems in the villages with Ms.

Vijayalaxmi, Political workers MaleeshYadav, SrisailanYadav, School Teacher and

villagers. We discussed the major problem in the villages which our students can solve. We

discussed about UnnatBharathAbhiyan scheme.

List of Problems Identified in Gowdavelli Village

• In this village, people are facing difficulties like removing the cow dung that

consumes a lot time and also involving health issues.

• Mr.NarshingRao (resident of village) has to spray pesticides to the fields for his

daily wage. He is facing the problem of carrying sprayer on his back all the time and

the chemicals result in to many health issues.

• For harvesting the paddy fields it requires large number of labour. But in the

harvesting season, labour is in great demand and very difficult to find and hire.

• There is no proper dumping area so people throw waste on the roads and make the

village untidy.

• Our Community Partner Mr. S.K.Iqbal from Gowdavelli village. His age is 55 years

and he is a shop keeper. In his village they are facing problem in disposing waste.

The GHMC people visit once in three days to collect the garbage waste. Villagers

are dumping the garbage in their surrounding areas, roads and the area near the

railway station. The shop is located in the vicinity of railway station due to which

our community partner is facing the problem of stink and dirt.They do not have

proper disposal garbage bags.

• Our community partner Bhoomaiah is the water supplier of the village Gowdaveli.

He has to fill multiple tanks and often forgets to switch off the pump set. This leads

to lot of water wastage and decreases the water table. This further leads to water

shortage in the months of summer.

• Problems faced by farmers while spraying fertilizers - Back ache due to the heavy

weight of fertilizer tanks and becoming victims of skin allergies while spraying

insecticides.

• Our Community Partner Mr. Souraih is 67 yrs old person staying in gowdavelli

village and working as a gardener in an engineering college. This college is having

approximately 3000 square feet of lawn area. His work is to trim & clean the grass

of the lawn on alternate days. While doing this work, he is facing the problem of

pushing the heavy weight machine and also to carry a direct AC power supply wire

all over the lawn. It is a time consuming work for him.

• Conducted GramaSabha on 15-08-2018

• Student / Faculty interaction with villagers

• Meeting with Gram Panchayat member

• Interaction with local government official

• Awareness programs about health issues, government policies and education

List of Problems Identified in Gnanapoor Village

• The available paddy cutter in the market is of heavy weight and large in size and it

is not portable easily.

• Bore well is not in working condition

• Our Community Partner Mr. Nagesh is 53yrs old farmer. He has a farm of

approximately 6000sqft. He is facing the problem of plucking peanuts from the

ground.

• In this village only twice a day public transport bus will ply and passengers have to

wait for a long time to board it there is no bus shelter to wait for nor the seating

arrangement.

• In this village there is no proper transportation to commute from village to town.

Only one bus will ply twice a day, they are finding great difficulty to travel during

emergencies.

• Our Community Partner Mr. Nagesh is 53yrs old farmer. He has a farm of

approximately 6000sqft. He is facing problems while plucking peanuts from the

ground. It is a time consuming work for him .The existing product has low digging

level ,difficult to control the machine in narrow areas and 25%of the peanuts can

not be plucked from the ground. Due to his age & other medical issues, he is facing

problem with the existing machine. On interaction with him, we came to know that

he wishes to get a machine which can reduce his burden.

• In this village there is no dustbin to throw the waste. So we are trying to design a

smart dustbin which opens automatically when a person comes near it . If the dust

bin is full the owner will get a message on his phone.

• Conducted GramaSabha on 15-08-2018

• Student / Faculty interaction with villagers

• Meeting with Gram Panchayat member

• Interaction with local government official

• Awareness program about health issues, government policies and education

List of Problems Identified in Basuregadi Village

• Ms.Amrutha working as an anganawadi teacher. In anganawadi center, there is no

proper security for students and wash rooms are also not in proper condition.

• On one side of the village, there is no proper drainage system so the water gets

stagnated on either sides of the roads. Eventually becomes a breeding ground for

mosquitoes.

• We discovered that there are no proper roads and a provision for street lights.

Thus, people are finding difficulty to travel on roads especially during nights.

• In this village, we came across a problem where people are having large number of

cows which is their major source of income. To maintain the cleanliness they need to

remove cow dung everyday which is a tough job. This requires lot of effort and time.

To address the above problem, we discovered one solution which will provide an

easy remedy to the above mentioned task. We are working on one device with which

the removal of the cow dung is made easy without much effort and saves time.

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• Conducted GramaSabha on 15-08-2018

• Student / Faculty interaction with villagers

• Meeting with Gram Panchayat member

• Interaction with local government official

• Awareness program about health problem, government policies and education

List of Problems Identified in D Pochampally Village

• Mr.Nagesh he has 20 cows for extracting milk is a major problem faced by the

farmer.

• Our Community Partner Mr. RamuGoud staying in D Pochampally village. They

have a lake in their village which is ill maintained, people find it difficult to clean the

lake, due to it’s depth. He wishes for a machine which can clean the lake without

risking life of anyone during its cleaning.

• Farmers are facing problems to remove stones in the field which they need to get

removed before cultivating the fields. Its time consuming and a herculean task for

them.

• We as a team decided to provide a solution for our community partner by which he

can do his work easily and efficiently. Therefore, we have come up with an idea of

making solar pool skimmer which can be operated from any remote place. After

considering the consumption of electricity in the existing product, we have decided

to make this solar pool skimmer a complete environment friendly product.

• We have found the problem in the fields of village. farmers are facing problems to

remove the stones in the field which they need to remove before cultivating the

fields. Its time consuming and difficult task for them. We can solve this problem by

providing engineering solution. We can make one device which will clean not only

stones but also other things which may interrupt to cultivate the field.

• Conducted GramaSabha on 15-08-2018

• Student / Faculty interaction with villagers

• Meeting with Gram Panchayat member

• Interaction with local government official

• Awareness program about health , government policies and education

List of Problems Identified in Bachupally Village

• In this village, roads are not properly laid thus people are facing problem to travel

from place to place.

• In this village a slum area was identified, people living in these slums are not

having proper identity cards like aadhar ,ration or pan. They are not aware of

policies provided by government like accident insurance , LIC etc.

• In this village we found water scarcity. People are not getting enough quantity of

water as well as the water is not potable. Polluted water is the root cause for many

diseases, with which the villagers are getting mostly affected.

• Our community partner was facing the problem of spending lot of money and time

for sowing seeds. Even after spending much amount, the seeds are sown randomly

and sometimes lot of seeds are dropped at the same place or very close to each other.

We as a team came up with a solution to help him by making a device that can solve

these problems.

• Student / Faculty interaction with villagers

• Meeting with Gram Panchayat member

• Interaction with local government official

• Awareness program about health issues, government policies and education

Grassroots Innovation Report

It is a grass root innovation programme. It helps farmers to solve their own problems in

new and cheaper ways than the existing products in the market with the basic knowledge

they possess. It also helps such farmer - entrepreneurs to sell their innovations all over the

country, thus helping many others of their class. It shows that lack of education and

technical expertise cannot become barriers for innovation as long as there is a wish and will

to do. They have brought out many innovations into the market like:

➢ Mahipalweeder

➢ Sri tailam

➢ Air filter

➢ Solar fertilizer

➢ Tree climber

Pedal pump:

It has been invented by B. Mallesh. It can pump up water upto 25 feet. It is a variation of

the hand pump. In the hand pump the strain falls on the hands. In this case it is borne by

the legs. The strain produced is also much less. It doesn't run on any form of electricity or

fuel, just on the power of legs.

On April 13, 2019 the engineering project in community service project expo was held at

our college. Students of various branches took part in this expo. Students displayed their

projects done in epics. The final year students also took part in this expo, they displayed

their major projects and other various projects in the expo. The major attraction of the

expo was Palle Srujana (grassroots innovations), which is an organization that helps

farmers and other villagers in finding solution to their problems they are facing. In the

project expo various machines and methods were displayed by Palle Srujana that were

designed and developed by the farmers.

Palle Srujana displayed various machines such as the soil digging machine that is made by

a farmers, this machine helps them to dig the soil faster and in more efficient way. The

motor of the soil digging machine can also be used as a pump for pulling the water from

ground or well and then supply that water to fields.

The other inventions were the solar powered mobile charger which uses the solar energy to

charge the cell phones. The tree climber, which is a simple yet easy and fast way to climb

coconut trees with the help of few moving parts. The electric pole climber, in this the pair

of slippers were attached to specially designed iron frame that holds the electricity pole

with grip. Dishwasher ,herbal fertilizer made of tulasi leaves and herbs, solar fertilizer

sprayer-which use solar energy to run a pump that sprays the liquid.

This equipment’s made by farmers and urban people show that a person does not need any

degree to achieve their requirements and dreams.

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Visiting to Palle Srujana NGO – Grassroots innovation

Organizations , Partners: Palle Srujana

Venue: PalleSrujana office Vayupuri colony

Date: 01 September 2018

No. of attendees: 32 (2 faculty+30 students)

Palle Srujana Organizer: Volunteer Kanaka Raju (9121868548) and Ramesh (8074429843)

Summary:

The event emphasized on the development of various fields related to science which

included healthcare, technology, education and safe transport system. Nature provides

abundant knowledge and those who live in nature absorb it easily. They leverage such

knowledge for their livelihood and for the benefit of human comfort, improve the quality of

life, preserve biodiversity, and above all maintain harmony with nature.

Interaction session with Palle Srujana organizers and HITAM students. Students

learned about grass root innovations and their importance in community services.

Discussed real time problems like example, solar fertilizer sprayer which is invented by

Farmer, electric pole climber, solar refrigerator, etc. The students, hence were exposed to

the development of the current day technologies which is growing by leaps and bounds.