Innovation Scholars-In-Residence Programme, Rashtrapati Bhavan (President House)

Innovation Scholars-In-Residence Programme, Rashtrapati Bhavan (President House)

To give a unique thrust to the innovation agenda of the nation and create an extremely empathetic model of supporting innovation, the Hon’ble President of India announced an Innovation scholar-in-residence program in December 2013. Under the scheme, selected innovators are hosted by the Rshtrapati Bhavan and provided appropriate linkages for taking the innovations forward. In the inaugural year, five innovators stayed at Rashtrapati Bhavan for a period of 20 days from 01 July – 20 July, 2014. The second batch of ten Innovation Scholars In-Residence Programme will commence from 7th March, 2015 and will be hosted for a period of two weeks. This section provides a glimpse of the work of the shortlisted innovators for this year’s program.

  1. X-Ray to 3D
  2. OSLE(Optimum Speed Locking Equipment)
  3. Robotic Mobile based Pine Needle Collector
  4. DHWANI- An interactive System for differently abled
  5. Super Stocker 3C
  6. Ambulating Machine
  7. Modified walker with adjustable legs
  8. Prosthetic Knee for uneven terrain
  9. Bulkmail Processing and sorting Machine
  10. Instracon and Instrahome building soultions
  11. Cylindrical shaped refrigerator with rotatory tray
  12. Wrapper Pricker
  13. Biomass Gasifier
  14. Modified Hydro Electric turbine
  15. Walnut Cracker
  16. Hydro-operated Square-bottom Paper and Jute Bag Making Machine
  17. Chetna-celebrate your pregnancy
  18. Assamese language through an audio-visual interface
  19. Care Mother
  20. Apparatus for making silk fiber based lamellar bio materials to solve problem of lower back pain
  21. Stair Climbing wheel chair
  22. Novel stand alone 1-phase ac generator for Rural Electrification using renewable energy
  23. A simple and cost effective retrofitting to improve the thermal and combustion performance of traditional cook stoves
  24. Reversible Reduction gear for marine diesel engine and Z drive propeller
  25. Chaff Cutter with clutch and brake system