Plenary Session

0800 to 0930

Registration and Tea/Coffee
In-front of R J M Auditorium

0930 to 1130

Inauguration of The Fourth International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at/for/from/with Grassroots [ICCIG 4]
Celebrating 150th year of Gandhi Ji’s Birthday
&
Presenting
HBN CRIIA Award (Honey Bee Network Creativity & Inclusive Innovation Award )

Place : R J M Auditorium

Introduction to ICCIG4 Conference
Prof. Anil Gupta
Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN, NIF and Visiting Faculty, IIMA and IITB, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow

Welcome address by
Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand
Chairperson, Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation,
Co-Chairperson, JSW School of Public Policy Executive Committee, IIMA
And
Prof. Vasant P. Gandhi
Chairperson, Centre for Management of Agriculture, IIMA

Inaugural address
Prof. Errol D’Souza
Director, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Opening Address
Prof. Arun Agrawal, FNAS
Professor, SEAS, University of Michigan and Chief Editor, World Development

Keynote Address

Dr. Rajendra Singh Paroda
Chairman, TAAS, Former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Government of India

Dr. P. S. Goel
Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation-India, Grambharati, Gandhinagar
Former Secretary at the Department of Ocean Development, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India and a Former Director of Indian Space Research Organization

Dr. Mia Mikic
Director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Bangkok

Dr. Yasmin Haque
Country head, UNICEF India, New Delhi

Panel Discussion on mobilizing mass support for grassroots innovations
Coordinated by Mr. Chetan Patel and Dr. Anamika Dey
UFO Movies
Mr. Siddharth Bhardwaj
Chief marketing Officer and Head of Enterprise Sales

HBN CRIIA AWARDS by GIAN

Vote of thanks by Dr. Vipin Kumar
Chief Innovation Officer / Director, NIF

1130 to 1200

Tea/Coffee Break
In Front of R J M Auditorium

1200 to 1330

Plenary Discussion : Innovation, Investment and Enterprise

Chair: Dr. Saurabh Garg
Principal Secretary, Agriculture and farmer empowerment

Co-Chair: Dr. Premnath V.
Director, Venture Center, Scientist, Polymer Science & Engineering Division
Head, NCL Innovations (& Head, IP Group)

Smt. D.Thara, IAS
Hon. Vice Chairman & Managing Director, GIDC

Mr. Sunil Parekh
Member, Board of Directors, GIAN, Chief Corporate Affairs at Advisor @ Zydus Group (Pharma Group, Healthcare, Education)

Ms. Deepanwita Chattopadhyay
Chairperson and CEO
IKP Knowledge Park

Dr. Vipin Kumar
Chief Innovation Officer / Director, NIF

Dr. Anamika Dey
CEO- Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)

Grassroots Innovators
Subhash Ola (Alwar, Rajasthan)
Upendrabhai (Amreli, Gujarat)
Rajkumar Rathod (Madhya Pradesh)
Dharamveer Kamboj
Pooja Peja

1330 to 1430

Lunch
IIMA Student Mess

1430 to 1600

Technological Innovations-assistive and other Innovations

Innovative classroom and school processes
Session – 1

Social
Innovations

Agri- Innovations-1
crop varieties

Wing 11

R J M Auditorium

CR 1

RJMC Class Room

Chair Dr. R. S. Paroda
Chairman TAAS

Shri C K Koshy
Faculty, CEPT and former ACS, industry, Guj govt

Alladi Prabhakar
(My Experience In Providing Solutions For Human Comfort For Disabled.)

Bin Wu
Farmer innovation system and government intervention: An empirical study of straw utilisation
UK

Mrs Assétou Kanouté
Coordinator of PROFEIS Mali

Dr. Rakesh Maheshwari &
Dr. Anamika Dey

Dhanjibhai Karai, Jigneshbhai, Vidhi Parekh, Janhavi Joshi (Sway, GYTI Innovator)

Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay,
Mr. Debjyoti Chowdhury

Chair: Ms. P. Bharathi
State Project Director
Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
Gandhinagar

Co-Chair: Prof. Shashi Ranjan Yadav
Vice Chancellor – Indian Institute of Teacher Education

Introduced by:
Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand
Chairperson, RJMCEI

Ms. P. Bharathi – SAMARTH: Online Professional Development of Teachers

Sachin Mandavgane – Encouraging students to take informed decision using web 2.0 tools: A case study of chemical engineering,

Daniel Rudolph – focuses on Barefoot College’s Digital Night Schools along with the confirmation of payment,

Piyush Chadarava – Case Study on Kalinga Institute of Social Science: Crafting Blue Ocean Strategy in Education Sector to Empower Indigenous Communities of Odisha State,

Neeta Shukla – Low Cost IOT & Automation Training Kit | Automation Training Kit, IOT, Electronics, Digital Literacy, Circuits, (proposed)
Sandip Gund – Interactive Digital Classroom, gave free of cost training to 2 lakh teachers ,
Rameez Ahmad Sudhan – Transforming Public School Education in J&K: Challenges & Reality checks in building an Innovative Education Model.,

Discussant: Avinash Bhandari & Ketan Deshmukh

Shri Anshu Gupta
Founder Director at GOONJ

Shri Khushroo Poacha
Founder of Indianblooddonors.com

Shri Shubhranshu Choudhary
CGNET swara Chhattisgarh

Rohit Kumar
Vertical Garden and seed balls
Punjab

Manisha Gutman
Founder, eCoexist

Harshuk Bhai Dobariya
Popat Premi
(parrot lover)

Dr. Theodore (Ted) Moallem
Director of MakerWala Trust “Government Schools STEM Initiative”

Jena bhai, Padam Shri
Anar cultivator

Sumanth Mudaliar
Shashwat Front edge Technologies

Ajinkya Dharia
PadCare Labs Ltd.

Lakshmi Murthy/ Kailash Brijwasi
Jatan Sansthan

Rohit Mehra
IRS, Ludhiana

Li Ju George
Rural entrepreneurship

Nikesh Lagle
Rural entrepreneurship

Scientist

Dr. D. R. Mehta,
Professor & Head
Crop Breeding

Dr. N. Meenakshi Ganesan, Professor
Rice Breeding

Dr. H.S. Chawla
Prof & Head
Plant Biotechnology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, IPRs

Dr. Subodh Bisnoi
Assistant Professor, Agriculture research station – Sriganganagar

Innovators

Babasaheb N. Pisore

Rohit Sahu

Sanjeev Kumar

Kashinath N. Lokhande

Sabu Varghese

Santosh Pachar

Sandip V. Ghole

Jagadeesh Pareek

Discussant:
Hardev Choudhary
Innovation Officer/ Scientist-C (Agriculture)
National Innovation Foundation-India

Parwez Naushad
Senior Fellow

1600 to 1630

1630 to 1800

Start-up policies and practices: Biotech, Electronics and other innovation based enterprises

Innovative classroom and school processes
Session – 2

Documentation and Dissemination of Available Low-Cost Technologies and Labour Saving Machineries

Agri- Innovations-2
Agri-innovators related with crop varieties

CR 1

R J M Auditorium

Wing 11

RJMC Class Room

Dr. Anil Koul
Director of CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH)

Smt. D.Thara, IAS
Hon. Vice Chairman & Managing Director, GIDC

Mr. Rajamohan Varambally
STMicroelectronics

Dr Manish Shah
Director, L J Group

Dr Sanjay Chaudhary
AU

Dr. Premi Devi

DST- STI Policy Postdoctoral Fellow,
DST- Centre for Policy Research in S&T Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII),

Chair: Dr T. S. Joshi
Director – Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training (GCERT)

Co-Chair: Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand
Chairperson RJMECI

Co-Chair: Dr Shashi Ranjan Yadav
VC, IITE

Yahya Sapatwala – ICT training for visually impaired teachers,
Dr T. S. Joshi – Education Innovations Fair,
Jagrutiben Modi – Using games in teaching Gujarati language,
Vidhu Nair – An online test battery to ensure assessment of and for learning,
Imtiaz Ahmed Akhunji – Digital science teacher,
Sachin Mandavgane – Making fluid mechanics learning a fun ,
Kaushal Yadav – Inspiring Prospective teachers towards Game based,
Discussants: Samvet Kuril and Sanket Savalia

Chair: Dr.T. N. Prakash Kammardi
Chairman Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission

Co-Chair: Mr.P.Vivekanandan, Executive Director of Sustainable – agriculture & Environment Voluntary Action (SEVA)

Dr. Gracy C.P and Dr. Madhu Prasad
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Dr. Shashikumar Shankrappa and Dr. M.G Kerutagi
University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot

Dr. Amrutha Joshi and Dr. Maulasab
University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur

Dr. Balakrishna Nair M N
The University Of Trans-disciplinary Health Sciences And Technology

Babu Rao – Manually driven Multipurpose Drum Seeder

Scientist

Dr. Aruna C Reddy, Principal Scientist
Millets production

Dr. Sudhakar Pandey
Principal Scientist Vegetable breeding

Dr. V. S. Yadav
Director Vegetable Breeding

Innovators

Vallabhhai V. Marvaniya

Madan Lal Devada

Leela Ram Sahu

Rudrappa Zulapi

Surjeet Singh

Discussant:

Hardev Choudhary
Innovation Officer/ Scientist-C (Agriculture)
National Innovation Foundation-India

Dr. Satya Singh
Senior Fellow

1800 to 1815

1815 to 1945

Panel Discussion with grassroot innovators/ young entrepreneur /Gianastre, Bionest incubate(s) and
GYTI Awardee(s)

Session on Integrating women’s knowledge, creativity and innovations in the innovation ecosystem

Chair:

Sunil Chawla, CGM NABARD

Co-Chair:

Mr Ravindran A. Lakshmanan

General Manager, SIDBI*

Discussion on
Prototype development, Scale –up, Production, Market strategies , Global networking

Prof. Zhang Liyan
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China

Dr. Sunil Shukla
Director of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

Dr. Dinesh Awasthi
Former Director of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(coordinator)
,
Prof. Amit Karna
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Mr. Sunil Chawla
Chief General Manager, NABARD, Gujarat RO

Mr. Sunil Parekh
Member, GIAN board, Chief Curator, WEF

Chair: Laxmi Bhawani
(UNICEF)

Co-Chair: D. Thara
Hon. Vice Chairman & Managing Director, GIDC

Keynote: Ms Mona Khandhar
Secretary Rural Development

Smt. Mamta Devi
(Women-led Agro-biodiversity)

Ms. Sandhya Seetharaman
Project Officer, Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Kiranjot Sidhu
Head, Deptt.of Extension Education & Comm. Mgt., PAU, Ludhiana

Er. Kunalsingh Pawar
Rural Development Fellow – Kurkheda, Gadchiroli (VSTF)

Marzya Musiya (Women Entrepreneur)

Santosh Pachar
Women Innovator

1945

1000 to 1130

Plenary session

Chair
Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand
Chairperson, RJMCEI

Laxmi Bhavani
UNICEF Gujarat representative

Dr. T N Prakash
Chair, Agri Prices Commission, Karnataka

Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed
(C-CAMP) Program Director, DIA

Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti
Professor and Chairman, Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing (CPDM)
IISC Bangalore

Dr. Theodore (Ted) Moallem
Director of MakerWala Trust
“Government Schools STEM Initiative”

Prof Chetan Solanki
Remembering Gandhi through Global Solar Yatra, IIT Bombay

Dr. Vipin Kumar
Director, NIF

In-Front of R J M Auditorium

Scaling Up in Rural Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities-IIT-Bombay

Policies for grassroots educational innovation

R J M Auditorium

Wing-11

Co-ordinator – Prof. B. K. Chakravarthy & Prof. Anand B. Rao, IIT Bombay

Prof. Bhaskar Bhowmick
IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Ramesh Sakthivel
NIRDPR Hyderabad

Prof. Abhijit Deshpande
IIT Madras

Prof. Jayendran V.
IIT Bombay (SoULS Project)

Prof. Satish Agnihotri
CTARA- IIT Bombay

Mr. Pankaj Arya
CSIR, Indian Institute of Petroleum

Shri JiJi Mammen,
CGM, NABARD

Manish Shah,
Vice President, L J Institute of Technology

Hardev Chaudhary
Naushad Parvez
Satya Singh

NIF

Chair: Prof. Ambrish Dongre
Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Dr. Madhulika Sagaram – Using perception and emotional development as process of learning in underserved
environments,
Mrs. Smruti Sandesh Wavekar – Inculcating the habit of cleanliness through students’ active participation,
Minnie Matthew – Individual-Centric to People-Centric : Edutainment the Gandhi Way,
Hirenkumar Jani – Study on effectiveness of self-study through Digital Textbooks with QR codes in students of standard 4,

Imrankhan Mogal – Limitations of using ICT in classroom,
Changa Kag – Conducting the teaching-learning process in students’ regional dialect, Jignesh Rathod – Pragna approach : An effective innovation in primary education,

Discussant: Mr. Avinash Bhandari & Megha Gajjar

1330 to 1415

1415-1515 Poster Session:
all participants are invited to visit Posters of Technology, education and GYTI engineering student awardees

1515 to 1645

Fostering Open Cultures

Policies for Grassroots Educational Innovation

Mainstreaming the Margins

R J M Classroom

RJMC Auditorium

Wing 11

Chair
Prof Saurabh Popli, Associate Professor, SPA Bhopal and
Co-Chair
Dr. Jay Thakkar, CEPT

Moderator / Co-ordinator – Prof Saurabh Popli

Panelists –
Vishwanath, Uday Andhare, Sandeep bhai Virmani, Sonke Hoof Sangath

Presenters – Jay Thakkar, Hetal Patel and Nipun Prabhakar (15 minutes each)

Chair: Prof. Kathan Shukla
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Mehul Prajapati – A study on effects of use of ICT in education of primary school students

Prakash Suthar – A study on use of low cost equipment for teaching experimental science to students of standard 6-8

Bharat Vaghela – A study on increasing students’ regularity in school with the help of community

Akhil Paul – Curriculum Adaptation for Children with Deafblindness in Inclusive Education

Dr. Madhulika Sagaram – Proprioception and reconceptualization of formal curriculum in underserved environments Learning
Sandip N.Makwana – The Effects of Using Games on English Vocabulary Learning

Gautam Indrodiya – Effectiveness of science education on sustainable development

Discussants: Avinash Bhandari and Bhavesh Pandya

Chair: Prof. AK Das, Director IIIT Manipur and Professor at IITG

Co-Chairs: Prof GM Bhat, Director, Institute of Technology, Kashmir

Shri Augustus Suting
OSD, SCSTE, Govt of Meghalaya

Discussants: Dr. Nitin Maurya, NIF

Panelists:

Shri C. D. Mungyak,
Director cum Member Secretary, Arunachal Pradesh State S&T Council

Dr. A. A. Mao,
Scientist F, BSI, Kolkata

Dr. Zavei Hise
Head, Nagaland State Council for S&T

Dr. Vivek Kumar
Head, Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre and Innovation Hub

Lalbiakzurishala Ralte (Innovator)

Nabajit Bharali
(Innovator)

Maibam Thoithoi Singh (Innovator)

A dialogue among Agricultural and livestock innovators and outstanding traditional knowledge holders for rural development

Cultural Innovations and Institutional Transformation

Coping creatively with climate change
(Biodiversity conservation, benefit sharing and development of ethical supply chain, agrobiodiversity conservation, renewable energy, etc.)

RJMC Auditorium

CR1

Wing 11

Ramesh Patel, Secty,
Priyang Bhatt
Amul Coop

SRISTI Team

Dr Ravi Kumar
NIF

Dr Balaram Sahu

Shri Vivekanand
Seva, Madurai

Dr. S. B. Patel
Asst. Sup. (Vet)
Sabar Dairy,
Himatnagar

Herbal Healers
Shri Rasulbhai Vora
Shri Rehmat Khan
Shri Devkubhai
Shri Mogjibhai Damor
Shri Harshadbhai Patel
Shri Becharbhai
Rakesh pharmaceuticals

GIAN Team
Yogendra
Parth Pandit
Alzuber Said

Ashoke Chatterjee
Former Director, NID
Chair

Nilesh Kulkarni
GMT Foundation, co-chair

TBA*
Mr Sidharth Bharadwaj
Chief marketing officer, UFO moviez

Kumar Anubhav
Co-Founder NotOnMap

Motibhai Nayak
Improvement in Education through Cultural

Kalpesh Kothale

Chairperson:
Dr. Arun Agrawal
Professor, SEAS, University of Michigan

Co-Chair
Dr. Anamika Dey
(Climate smart technologies)

Akash Badave
Farmer breeders

Sh. O. P. Sharma, IFS
DCF (North-Udaipur)
Common property resources management in urban and rural areas besides global comments

Mr. Sanjay Patil
BAIF Development Research Foundation

Mr. Shwetal Shah, Technical Advisor, Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat

Vinod Adhiyol
Principal DIET, Mehasana

Chetana Mhaskey
Range Forest officer, Gadchiroli Forest Division

Hardev Chaudhary
Naushad Parvez
Satya Singh

NIF

1830 to 1815

1815 to 1945

Reaching the Last Mile: diffusion of Grassroot Innovations and practices for and from grassroots

Transcending technological boundaries: GYTI Awardees

g2g Dialogue: Mind on the margins are not marginal minds

Chair: Shri. Sanjay Prasad, IAS, ACS,
Agriculture, Farmers Welfare & Co-operation Department

Co-Chair: Dr. Rajendra Khimani
Registrar at Gujarat Vidyapith

Sh. O. P. Sharma, IFS
DCF (North-Udaipur)

Dr. Nitin Maurya, NIF

Dr. Zhang Liyan
Micro narratives of innovators

Mr. Sethrichem Sangtam
Better Life Foundation, Nagaland

Mr. Amit Gadre
AgroWon Newspaper Reporter, Maharashtra

Discussant:
Dr. Noushad
NIF

Chair: Dr. Kiran Kalia, Director, NIPER Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Dr. Amresh Chakraborty
Professor and Chairman, Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing (CPDM)
IISC Bangalore

Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay
Prof. and HoD at Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Heritage Inst. of Technology
Mr. Debjyoti Chowdhury
Assistant Professor of Instrumentation Engineering, Heritage Inst. of Tech., Kolkata

Ms. Srividhyasakthi
Assistant Prof. at Sri Rama Krishana Engg. College

Chair: Prof. Zhang Liyan
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China

Co-Chair: Mr. Mahesh Patel and Mr. Rakesh Maheshwari

Paresh Panchal
Sanjay Tilwa
Amrut agrawat
Bhanjibhai Mathukiya
Natubhai Vadher
Arjunbhai Pagdhar
Ralte
Jaymin Patel
Mansukhbhai Jagani
Upendrabhai Rathod
Nilesh Dobariya
Mansukhbhai Patel
Mansukh Prajapati

Dinner
IIMA Student Mess

Plenary session

Prof. Kuldeep Mathur
Formerly Professor of Political Science, JNU
Reflections on evolutionary journey of Honey Bee Network

Professor Pankaj Chandra
VC & Chairman, Ahmedabad University
Towards inclusive innovations ecosystem: some pointers

Challenges in research, policy and institutions for scaling up rural innovations

Dr. H. R Dave
DMD, NABARD

Mr. R S Sodhi
Managing Director, AMUL

Shri Ashish Kothari
Kalpavriksh, Pune

An open session to discuss future direction of Honey Bee Network

Prof. Anil Gupta
Founder, Honey Bee Network

Fostering Open Science

Farmer Producer Companies

Innovation in Education

Discussion With GYTI Awardee

Co-ordinator
Dr. Arul George Scaria Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Innovation, IP and Competition, National Law University, Delhi

Mr. Madhan Muthu Librarian, Azim Premji University, Bangalore

Dr. Kalyan C Kankanala
Chief IP Attorney and Senior Partner, BananaIP (BIP) Counsels

Ms. Vinita Radhakrishnan
Senior Partner and Chief Patent Officer, BananaIP (BIP) Counsels

Dr. Anil Kumar
Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Chair: Dr. H R Dave
DMD, NABARD
Co-Chair: Prof Sukhpal Singh, CMA

Mr Kaushlendra

Kamaljeet

Mr. Pravin Mali
Potato Organic FPO

Sh.Vikas Chaudhary
ProGrowers

Dr. Subodh Bisnoi
Assistant Professor, Agriculture research station – Sriganganagar

Genabhai Patel, Innovative Progressive Farmer

Yograj Singh Gohil, Organic Farmer

Coordinator –
Prof. Darshan Sankar

Keynote:
Open discussion on Diffusion of Teacher’s Innovations

ShodhYatra Route Teachers
From J and K
Gujarat
Maharashtra

Umesh Prasad
Darshanlal Baveja
Dr. Radhakant Gadatiya
Landup Lapcha
Dhananjay Pandey
Umesh Shukla
Yudhveer Tandan
Siddhram Mashale
Nagarjun Sharma Amruta Zende
Rani Bhowani
Tejal Chhatral
Shivam Pandya
Devendra Patel
Bharatbhai Der
Ranchodbhai Jadeja Dineshbhai Panchal
Tarun Katbamna
Divyesh Parmar
Abhay Dattatray Diwanaji
Discussants:
Lalji Nakrani
Nishanshi Shukla

Mr. Shekhar Mande DG CSIR, Secretary DSIR

with GYTI Awardees

Valedictory session
Looking forward

Chairman Address : Shri Harsh Bhanwala,
Chairman NABARD

Address by Dr. Shekhar Mande
DG CSIR, Secretary DSIR

Presentation of reports

Thanks and pathway for ICCIG 5
Prof. Anil Gupta
Founder, Honey Bee Network