Durga Madhab Mahapatra Supervisor: Dr. T V Ramachandra And Dr. H N Chanakya Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore A continuous bioreactor for treating wastewater with nutrient recovery and biofuel production. This technique works on bio-remediation principle with appropriately chosen algal consortia. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Endeavor of Honey Bee Network
Honey Bee Network, a new social movement pioneered open innovation culture much before the term became popular. For the last twenty five years, it has been at vanguard of protecting the knowledge, and resources rights of knowledge rich-economically poor people. It aims at i) cross-pollination of ideas, promoting lateral learning among creative individuals and communities, ii) … Continue reading
Ten policies that must change the small enterprises
The need for reforms is being felt almost by everybody. But, the pace of reform has not matched the rising societal expectations. On certain reforms, a political consensus has to be achieved. Unfortunately, when this consensus prevents critical and frugal thinking, it can also come in the way of reforms. A good example of such … Continue reading
Ten policies that must change-4: Water, sanitation and health
The water crisis in the country does not need much underlining. Several urgent measures are called for to bring greater equity in using existing water resources and augmenting future supplies. In most cities of India, roof top water harvesting has not yet become compulsory. Similarly, recycling of kitchen and bathroom wastewater has also not been … Continue reading
manifesto Part two: Ten policies that must change soon-the case of education
In this season of manifestos, I am sharing my own agenda, which is actually not my own in the true sense. It belongs to all those who wish to see a significant change in Indian polity that empowers unsung performers and those who wish to create entrepreneurial models of social change. I mentioned about agriculture … Continue reading
Care Mother
Shantanu Pathak, Dr. Shital Munde, Makrand Kate, Gaurav Khatale, Dr. Vaishali Korde Supervisor: Prof. Vaibhav Tidke Muhs, Nasik Care Mother is mobile pregnancy care integrated end to end solution, which provides remote and regular healthcare access at doorstep. It predicts and identifies high risk pregnancies, and connects with doctor before complications occur through an innovative … Continue reading
Paper And Pencil Micro Fluidic Device For Point-of-care Diagnostics
Ranabir Dey ,Ranabir Dey, Shantimoy Kar Supervisor: Prof. Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits are not commonly available for many diseases prevalent in developing countries like ours. Even for such kits, the test procedures can be labour and time intensive, requiring expert supervision all the time. … Continue reading
Paper-pencil Based Self-pumping And Self-breathing Fuel Cell
Ravi Kumar Arun ,Saurav Halder, Nripen Chanda Supervisor: Prof.suman Chakraborty Csir-central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur A paper based fuel cell, which uses capillary driven pumping (because of porous fiber network present on its surface) to pump the fluids. Unlike traditional fuel cells, the paper based fuel cell works on self-pumping and self-breathing mode … Continue reading
Development And Evaluation Of Women Friendly Vaginal In Situ Hydrogel For Sperm Immobilization
Dr. Vaishali Thakkar, Parita Moradiya, Dr. Nirav Patel Supervisor: Dr. Tejal R. Gandhi Anand Pharmacy College, Anand Curcumin based an efficient thermosensitive in situ gelling mucoadhesive system for contraception. The in situ vaginal gel of curcumin was prepared using poloxamer gelling agent (temperature based mechanism) containing biadhesive polymers for longer retention of dosage form. The … Continue reading
Touchpad For Malignant Tumour (epithelial) Detection And Imaging
Sritam Parashar Rout, Sritam Parashar Rout, Aditya Garg, Himanshu Gangwar Supervisor: Prof Anoop Jayaram Indian Institute Of Technology, BHU, Varanasi The system is a non-invasive and highly portable method of malignant (cancerous) tumor detection (differentiating it with benign tumors) without biopsy within a few seconds. Studies suggest that malignant tumor cells have less potassium ions … Continue reading