Parishodh

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BACKGROUND

Technology has been a major driver of Human DevelopmeHowever, the dissimilation of the technology and its benefit

always been uneven.

Most of the world’s cleverest designers

cater to the richest 10% of consumers, whileother 90% of the world waiting for theirbasic needs to get satisfied!

Many classes are still exclmarginalized and no tech

developed considering thand problems

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What Technology can offer

Extremely laborious and repetitive tasks

Use of primitive tools and technologies

Unsustainable human activities, degradingresources

Low living conditions, Lack of access tofacilities like education, healthcare,

banking, information and technology etc.

Low income, unemployment

Invention of new tools, techniques

Improvements in design, moderni

Improving the efficiency, new waytechniques of conservation of res

sustainable alternativ

Innovative strategies and service modelsservices and comforts to poor in affor

technology as an enab

Technology increasing human efficienopportunities of making livelihood, taping a

new innovative ways

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Will

Resources

xpertise

BITS : a premier Engin

Institute in India,

A good pool of talent

Strong Alumni Netwo

Labs, Workshop, Library,

Internet, CEERI,

Monitory resources

What we need to have is Will, Motivation

and Passion

Making Technology Work for socialdevelopment

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PARISHODH: Bridging gap between grassroots technology

• Parishodh derived from Sanskrit word ‘Parishodhna’ (meaning resa socio-technical cell at BITS Pilani fostering innovative solutions fograssroots problems through research projects and final implemen

• Currently we have two established chapters namely BITS Pilani andGoa

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OUR VISION

• Vision: To drive a socio-economic change towards sustainable

development in the country using science & technology as an enabtool.

• Mission: To create a highly talented and motivated workforce of ein the country who shall strive to take technology to the grassrootspositively impact the lives of the underprivileged.

• Objectives:

1. To promote the development of need-based technology solutionamong engineers and engineers-to-be

2. To concentrate efforts on the practical applications of research adevelopment at the grassroots

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OPERATING MODEL

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• Role of core team: The core team looks after the overall working aadministrative tasks like identification of problem, initiating collabwith Govt., NGO’s and organizations , arranging funding, monitorinprogress of projects etc.

• Role of research team: It carries out core research and developmactivities of a particular project.

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IMPACT• Short Term

1. To support students with ideas for innovation for social and environmeproblems by providing mentorship and actively getting involved in theof innovation

2. To Identify Social, Environmental problems and the needs of marginalipoor; and design and innovate practical and affordable solutions to theproblems using science and technology

• Long Term

1. To act as a platform that brings together technical expertise, young talresources at the universities; and grass-roots experience to find solutiosocial and environmental problems.

2. To act as an incubating agency that strives for the implementation ofdeveloped solutions through the Government, NGOs and Social Enterp

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OUR APPROACH

• Identification of the problems

• Research Projects

• End-to-end Involvement

• Implementation

• Competitions

• Support and consulting

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PROJECTS

Our teams in Pilani and Goa campuses are involved in a number of

projects addressing the grassroots problems.

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The aim of the project is to utilize waste

heat from a flame of gas stove and convertit into electricity using a thermoelectriceffect. This project is vey feasibleconsidering as much as 50% of heatproduced from stove is wasted whilecooking.

This machine is designed to ass

Self Help Groups and increase tproduction rates for manual pamaking. It is simple in design, mcheap readily available materiawood and can accommodate vabag-size

PAPER BAG MAKING MACteam)

ELECTRICITY FROM WASTE HEATOF GAS STOVE (Pilani team)

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ROPE PUMP (Pilani Team)

Cheap & Indigenous adsobased drinking water Pu(Pilani Team)

In this project we are looking falternatives for expansive purif

methods like activated carboare doing this through the use substances like rice husk, neemadsorbing the impurities. We pcome out with a DIY manual whbe used by any literate person this own water filter.

Bhaas Government School had a frequentproblem of hand pump damage. This

meant no water during school hours forkids . Parishodh is currently working ondeveloping a Rope Pump which is mucheasier to use, repair and manufacturewith better mechanical efficiency usingpedal power to eradicate this problem.

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BIO GAS (Goa Team)

We are developing an economical andportable storage system for biogas (inmodular form) to be used for kitchen

purposes. This will provide a fuel solutionto a large section of the rural population,while making use of a renewable energysource

AKASH GANGA (Pilani team)

The aim of this project is to devewireless monitoring network of rharvesting plants in Raila (A villa

Pilani) in collaboration with SustInnovations ltd. This consists of alevel measurement instrumentconnected to a wireless device thmicrocontroller and a databasemanagement network for the raiharvesting plants.

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Some Other Projects

• Arthika, a software project. (Goa team): This project’s aim is to bmanagement system for an NGO

• Waste Management Project in Zari (Goa team) :In collaborationstudent group of Georgia Institute of Technology we are working on wmanagement in Zari.

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EVENTSTo protract the knowledge of remarkably skilled engineers to theroots of aam aadmi problems, we present events namely Dhiti andBhagirath where in, an efficient, feasible technical solution has tobe designed to curb the potential problems of our country

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DHITI

• DHITI (Sanskrit for 'An Idea') provides such a platform for students, ppassionate individuals who aspire for technology to reach the grassroots

• For the event, we roll out certain problem statements collected from vOver a period of 2& half months, participants work on these problems asolutions that are efficient ,feasible and economical.

• Efforts are made by students and NGOs to implement on the field, sompromising solutions amongst all.

•Organized at BITS Pilani- Pilani Campus during technical festival APOG

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• BHAGIRATH – is an event aiming at inviting technological solutions tosocial problems. It is a belief that technology can be a panacea for seat hand .It is a marriage of technology and cause. Technology for soca concept and Bhagirath planned to extend this to reality.

• Participants require knowledge of current technological developmensector and preferably have very non-conventional methods to attackproblem statements

• Organized at BITS Pilani- Goa campus during technical festival Quark

BHAGIRATH

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INTERNSHIPSStarted in 2012, the program provides internship opportunities for engineeringstudents at organizations working on finding innovative technical solutions tograss-root level problems. Students participating in the program normally workon a technical project at one of the collaborating organizations during theirsummer term (May – July), which normally involve engineering solutions forcommon-man problems

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Aim Of Organizing Internship Program

• The Parishodh Technical Internships aim to achieve the following

objectives :

1. Introduce motivated engineering students to grass-root level resand innovation being done at the collaborating organizationsparticipating in the program.

2. Involve students in finding engineering solutions to problems as

grass-root level.

3. Provide collaborating organizations with a talented pool of enginstudents that can create a difference to their respective projects

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PAST COLLABORATORS

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Testimonials

The internship provided me with an

opportunity to use my technical skills to workfor a good cause. I learnt a lot about workethics, cooperation and team work. I also gotan opportunity to interact with the students ofInstitute for Blind, Chandigarh which was avery humbling experience and I would cherishit for my life time.

Sumanpreet Kaur

3 rd year, BITS Pilani

Organization: ARISE

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The internship helped me a lotin improving myunderstanding of the subjectof social entrepreneurshipand gaining ability to work ina team.

Jyotsna

2ndYear , MIT

Organization: TIDEMy whole experience as anintern at Agastya internationalfoundation was noteworthy andit accredited to my growth as an

individual.

Sai Sreedhar Varada ,

2nd year, IIT-BHU

Organization: Agastya

There are a mavailable for technical bachave a freedof your inter

Rohit Gupta

2nd year, MAI

Organization:

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INTERNSHIPS : 2014

• Continuing the trend of last 3 years, this year too we would be org

technical summer internships, albeit on a much grander scale.

• We have many new collaborators in form of Rite Water SolutionsFirst, GNUS, Kisanraja, Vidya Help Line etc.

• We are expanding the number of colleges we contact through ‘Camambassador’ program.

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THANK YOU

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