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Uddhab Bharali is an Indian inventor from Assam who has created over 118 inventions since the late 1980s, many of which focus on solving agricultural problems and helping disabled people in his home state. After studying mechanical engineering, he started a business making polythene covers for tea estates when his family was in debt. Since then, he has invented numerous machines for peeling, grinding, and processing crops and bamboo. He also designs assistive devices for disabled individuals. Bharali works with organizations like NIF to further develop his ideas. He has received many honors for his work, including honorary doctorates and national civilian awards like the Padma Shri in 2019.
Uddhab Bharali is an Indian inventor from Assam who has created over 118 inventions since the late 1980s, many of which focus on solving agricultural problems and helping disabled people in his home state. After studying mechanical engineering, he started a business making polythene covers for tea estates when his family was in debt. Since then, he has invented numerous machines for peeling, grinding, and processing crops and bamboo. He also designs assistive devices for disabled individuals. Bharali works with organizations like NIF to further develop his ideas. He has received many honors for his work, including honorary doctorates and national civilian awards like the Padma Shri in 2019.
Uddhab Bharali is an Indian inventor from Assam who has created over 118 inventions since the late 1980s, many of which focus on solving agricultural problems and helping disabled people in his home state. After studying mechanical engineering, he started a business making polythene covers for tea estates when his family was in debt. Since then, he has invented numerous machines for peeling, grinding, and processing crops and bamboo. He also designs assistive devices for disabled individuals. Bharali works with organizations like NIF to further develop his ideas. He has received many honors for his work, including honorary doctorates and national civilian awards like the Padma Shri in 2019.
Uddhab Bharali, born on 7 April 1962) is an Indian
inventor from the Lakhimpur district of Assam Bharali is
credited with about 118 innovations, starting from the late 1980s. He studied in the Government Higher Secondary School of North Lakhimpur. He then went on to study Mechanical Engineering in Jorhat Engineering College Institute of Engineers in Chennai. However, he was only able to complete AMIE sec 1, due to the prevalent financial burden on his family. In 1988, when his family was in debt, he decided to start a Polythene cover making business catering to Tea Estates in Assam. Instead of spending about 1 lakh on buying a machine, he designed his own machine for about 67,000. Bharali was then determined to continue building machines, rather than buying them. Bharali's family was under heavy-debts and Uddhab was always under pressure from Banks for repayment. His brother died in 1995, after which he was the sole earning member in his family, and he started earning money by his innovations, focused to solve issues around Lakhimpur district with Agriculture and small- scale industries being his targets Focusing on agricultural output, Bharali went on to build a variety of peeler machines to peel Betel Nut, Cassava, Garlic, Jatropha and Safed Musli, and also re-designed Assamese paddy grinder, that could be operated by only turning a wheel. He also invented Bamboo Processing Machine to cut-polish-surface finish long Bamboos, cutters for and green tea leaves, etc. The best part of all these are being they were indigenous, low-cost and could be operated by single- person. His last facet is expected to be life-saver in coming years for disabled people around Lakhimpur. With his machines being used around locality, Bharali was approached by needy, if he could help them. Bharali started offering support both in form of monthly- monetary support and Callipers and others to better their lot. Machines to feed the disabled, Slippers for Knees, the list of his inventions kept growing. Bharali works on assignments he receives from NIF and other establishments. Recognition Since NIF support, Bharali was offered fiscal support under the Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP) Scheme at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. Bharali started getting covered in Assamese Press for his variety of machines. Discovery Channel and other global media. On 5 July 2012, Bharali was entered into an online voting competition for the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for his design of a bench- top pomegranate de-seeder He is also the recipient of ‘Rashtriya Ekta Samman, in 2013. He was one of the speakers in TEDx at ISM Dhanbad held in October 2014. In 2019, Government of India conferred on him Padmashree, the 4th highest civilian award of the country. Awards Uddhab Bharali was awarded honorary Doctorate from Assam Agricultural University (AAU) in 2014 and Honorary PhD from Assam Kaziranga University. Few others are- 1. Meritorious Invention Award 2010, NRDC 2. Certificate of Merit, NRDC,2010 Govt. Of India 3. Prayukty Ratna Title -2010, Asom Sahitya Seva. 4. Shilpa Ratna Title –2012 by Asom Satra Mahasava 5. Rashtriya Ekta Samman-2013. 6. NICT Perfect -10 Award, ABP Media Group and The Telegraph 7. Chief Minister Best Awardee, 2013, Govt. of Assam. 8. ERDF excellence award-2014 9. Pratidin Time Media achiever award-2015 10. Kamala Kanta Saikia National award-2016 11. Asom Gourav award-2016 12. Romoni Gabhoru award -2016- By ATASU – Assam 13. Swayamsiddh- Shri Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman-2017 by JSPL 14. Winner Of Engineering Design Contest Organized By NASA Tech Briefs Media Called "Create The Future Design Contest- 2012" for Bench-top Pomegranate De-Seeder. It was placed 2nd in the Top Ten Most Popular Invention. 15. Winner NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest—2013", for invention of -Detention Chair for mentally challenged Person. 16. Qualified for NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest—2014" for invention of feeding device for person without hand. 17. Qualifier –World Tech Award—2012 –For invention of Mini Tea plant. 18. Pioneer Award-2017. 19. Excellence Award2018-Mahatma Gandhi University, Meghalaya. 20. Padma Shri Award - 2019