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Saturday, Feb 18, 2006

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You can light a cracker with remote control

Special Correspondent

Discovery to run series on `grassroots inventors' from February 20

Bangalore: In the case of these otherwise your "every day" people, necessity was the mother of invention.

Like Raghav Gowda of Dakshina Kannada, a man finding it hard to get enough hands for his dairy farm and get his cows milked in time. He found a way out with a manually operated milking machine.

"From August 2002 onwards, I developed the `Milkmaster' in 15 stages and it is finally fit to be made in numbers large enough to be marketed. Now more than 250 dairy farmers across South India are using them; I get orders from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh too," he said.

Mr. Raghav Gowda is one among the "grassroots inventors" from India to be featured along with inventors across the world in a new programme on Discovery Channel: Beyond Tomorrow.

In the 18-episode series starting February 20, it will be inventions that the National Innovation Foundation of the Union Department of Science and Technology and the Indian Institute of Science have hailed.

An example is Balram Singh Saini of Ambala in Haryana has come out with a "remote-operated firecracker device" made from the common television remote control. You can stand far enough away and safely light that cracker. The National Innovation Foundation helps inventors of such simple but practical devices.

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