1st Industrial Sodhyatra by GTU and Techpedia at Naroda Industries Association (NIA)

Technical Institute- Vishwakarma Government Engineering College. Chandkheda, Gnadhinagar Students/ Team- 27 Guides- Prof M. R.Patel ( Principal,VGEC), Prof Uday Trivedi (Dpt of Nano Science), Prof M.G.Desai( HOD, Chem),Shital Amin, P.H.Rana . Guide from Industries- Mr Shailesh Patwari( President Naroda Industries Association ),Mr Ajay Patel,Mr Dinesh Prajapati and other Industry (MSME)owners who walked along with students and faculties. Mr Tanmay Mehta, GCCI for inter process communication. Shodhyatra Coordination- Hiranmay Mahanta, Malav Kansara, (Techpedia.in) www.techpedia.in

Background-

India had missed the industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century and early part of twentieth

century. Our industries had not benefited from research at Universities and the two have not yet

been able to come together in any meaningful way, in spite of all the efforts during the last 63 years.

Innovation cannot occur at industries, which have no active inter-action with Universities. Innovation

at Universities, where the learners & researchers and laboratories & workshops have no contact

with the real world is very difficult. The Soviet Russian experiment has proved that research

laboratories, without an active relationship with Universities, may not be as innovative as expected.

Basic Agenda for the above Shodhyatra-

To map four aspects of technology – in – use at MSME clusters and in the neighbouring rural and

urban communities by.

1. The first aspect was benchmarking the current level of energy, material and technology

youths in the enterprise.

2. Second, to identify any innovation that the MSME unit may have tried.

3. Third was to identify the unsolved problems.

4. And the fourth was to identify the policy bottlenecks which are coming in the way in realizing

fully the entrepreneurial potential.

Innovation Ecosystem-

The industry defined projects, IDPs scouted by students of 32 various disciplines of Engineering will

be posted at Techpedia.in. Students will convert these real life issues as their projects and put hand

together with the help of floor people from corresponding industries from where problems are being

mapped. This will address the challenge to get ready for India to become crucible of creativity for the

whole world. Unlike the low tech IT outsourcing business, in future platform like

innovation clusters being developed by GTU and Techpedia.in, would enable high tech outsourcing

with the distributed management of knowledge and ideas with high degree of

redundancy. (166 industry clusters+ 500 colleges of GTU will be divided into 20 innovation clusters of

GTU Colleges and industries , MSMEs).The MSMEs will be benefited via 20, lac months of effort by

Engineering students of GTU every year. All MSMEs of this association's floor projects will be

mapped and channelized to various technical institutes of GTU.Students will convert these IDPs as

their final year real life project. The innovation quotient of the country will go up in a single stroke.

Shodhyatra part-1

A Brief Training Secession for students on Scouting and Documentation by Hiranmay Mahanta, Prof

M.G.Desai and Mr Ajay Patel (from Industries) at NIA.The Industrial Shodhyatra began from this

point.

Part 2- Faculty-Industrialist Interaction.

Part-3

A hand Analytical Experience for Students guide by Professors and SME technocrats.

Part-4

On the Spot Suggestions by students in improving product, process and Probable insertion of

Innovative interdisciplinary strategies.

Part-5

A finishing touch on Documentation/mapping of IDPs (industry defined projects) from real floor of

MSMEs. (Coordinated by Malav Kansara).

Part-6

Redefining Waste Management-Waste is that whose optimum usability is yet to be found

Students, Fcaulties, Floor persons, technocrats brainstorm in efficient waste management.

Part-7

Analysing the inputs taken from Industry Floor with faculties and Techpedia team at NIA after floor

interaction.

Part-8

Developing road map for next week industrial shodhyatra and taking initiatives for creating a co-

created innovation based knowledge ecosystem.

A team who walked in NIA for locating/mapping MSME defined technical projects.

Industrial Sodhyatra will be done in weekends involving faculties and students in all parts of state from

coming weeks.This will felicitate an user defined innovation based knowledge ecosystem. These

Sodhyatras will be done involving all technical students of GTU in larger scale in summer where they

will map the IDPs in a period of 1 month while closely working with industries and submit

projects/IDPs to GTU. Best proposed projects by students, 1000 in BE and 1000 in Diploma will be

supported by GTU financially if the novelty of idea to solve the practical issue is innovative. This will

help more and more students solving real life issues (socio-technical issues).MSMEs can be

benefited via students and faculty's research works in academia. A healthy bonding can be created

between MSME (who cannot afford their own R&D and other industries) and student/researchers

groups. Faculties and floor engineers (even semiskilled floor engineers) will be exchanged both in

industry and academia for mapping a need based evolution.

Connections, creativity and collaboration in both academia and industry will be developed via

optimum harnessing of technical youth potential of India.