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| name              = Uddhab Kumar Bharali
| name              = Uddhab Kumar Bharali
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| nationality      = Indian
| nationality      = Indian
| field            = [[Physics]] , [[technology]]
| field            = [[Physics]] , [[Technology]]
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| alma_mater        = [[Jorhat Engineering College]]
| alma_mater        = [[Jorhat Engineering College]]
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| known_for        = Low cost, eco-friendly innovations (eg.- pomegranate deseeder)s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://achhikhabre.com/uddhab-bharali/|title=Uddhab Bharali, the man from Assam with more than 159 incredible inventions}}</ref>
| known_for        = Low cost, eco-friendly innovations (eg.- pomegranate deseeder)s<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020">{{cite news |last1=Bhattacherjee |first1=Niloy |title=Ace Innovator Uddhab Bharali Gifts 'Moving Lifter' to 15-Year-Old on International Day of Disabled Persons |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/ace-innovator-uddhab-bharali-gifts-moving-lifter-to-15-year-old-on-international-day-of-disabled-persons-3142964.html |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=[[News18]] |date=December 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://achhikhabre.com/uddhab-bharali/|title=Uddhab Bharali, the man from Assam with more than 159 incredible inventions}}</ref>
| prizes            = President’s Grassroots Innovation Award<br />Shristi Samman Award <br /> NASA Tech ''Create the Future Design Contest'' (2012, 2013) <br /> Rashtriya Ekta Samman <br/>
| prizes            = President’s Grassroots Innovation Award<br />Shristi Samman Award <br /> NASA Tech ''Create the Future Design Contest'' (2012, 2013) <br /> Rashtriya Ekta Samman <br/>
[[Padma Shri]] (2019)
[[Padma Shri]] (2019)
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'''Uddhab Bharali''', (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian inventor from the [[Lakhimpur district]] of [[Assam]].<ref name="Rediff">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-interview-with-uddhab-bharali/20120716.htm |title=AMAZING: Meet the Indian engineer with 98 INNOVATIONS! |publisher=Rediff India |date=2012-07-16}}</ref><ref name="SevenSisters">{{cite web|url=http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=22630# |title=Assam innovator in Nasa prize shortlist |publisher=Seven Sister's Post India |date=2012-07-05}}</ref> Bharali is credited with about 118 [[innovation]]s, starting from the late 1980s.<ref name="TheHindu">{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/his-experiments-with-life/article3711863.ece | title= His experiments with life | newspaper=The Hindu |date=1 August 2012 | first=Akshat | last=Chopra | access-date=5 October 2018 }}</ref>
'''Uddhab Bharali''' (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian inventor from the [[Lakhimpur district]] of [[Assam]].<ref name="Rediff">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-interview-with-uddhab-bharali/20120716.htm |title=AMAZING: Meet the Indian engineer with 98 INNOVATIONS! |publisher=Rediff India |date=2012-07-16}}</ref><ref name="SevenSisters">{{cite web|url=http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=22630# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715212725/http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=22630 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=15 July 2012 |title=Assam innovator in Nasa prize shortlist |publisher=Seven Sister's Post India |date=2012-07-05}}</ref> Bharali is credited with more than 160 [[innovation]]s, starting from the late 1980s.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /> In 2019, he was awarded the [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Agarwala 2019">{{cite news |last1=Agarwala |first1=Tora |title=Meet Assam’s Padma Shri winners: surgeon Illias Ali and innovator Uddhab Bharali |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/assam/meet-assams-padma-shri-winners-population-expert-illias-ali-and-innovator-uddhab-bharal-5556032/ |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=January 26, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" />


==Life==
==Early life and education==
Bharali was born on 7 April 1962 in the Lakhimpur district of Assam.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /> His father was a businessman.<ref name="Rediff" />


=== Early life ===
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 Madras Chapter in [[Chennai]]. He left engineering school in 1988 because his family was unable to support his education due to their debt.<ref name="Agarwala 2019" />
Bharali was born on 7 April 1962 in the Lakhimpur district of Assam. His father was a businessman.<ref name="Rediff" />
 
=== Student life ===
He studied in the Government Higher Secondary School of [[North Lakhimpur]]. He was often punished to stand outside the classroom because he often asked difficult questions to his mathematics teacher. He was awarded, and double promoted twice, first from Class I to III, and then again from Class VI to VIII. While he was studying in Class VIII, he was able to solve some of the toughest sums of Class XI and XII. He then went on to study [[Mechanical Engineering]] in [[Jorhat Engineering College]], [[Institute of Engineers Madras Chapter]] in [[Chennai]]. However, he was only able to complete [[AMIE]] sec 1, due to the prevalent financial burden on his family.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://sanki.in/2012/08/01/sanki-dropouts-uddhab-bharali-nominated-for-nasa-award|title = Sanki|access-date = 8 January 2012|website = Sanki}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
In 1988, when his family was in debt, he decided to start a [[polythene]] cover making business catering to [[Tea Estate]]s in Assam. Instead of spending about {{INRConvert|570000}} on buying a machine, he designed his own machine<ref name="Rediff" /> for about {{INRConvert|67000}}. Bharali was then determined to continue building machines, rather than buying them.<ref name="Better India">{{cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/81244/uddhab-bharali-assam-agricultural-inventions/ |title=This College Dropout from Assam Has over 140 Agricultural Innovations to His Credit |publisher=Better India |date=2017-01-02}}</ref>
In 1988, while his family was in debt, he decided to start a [[polythene]] cover making business catering to Tea Estates in Assam. Instead of spending about {{INRConvert|570000}} on buying a machine, he designed his own machine<ref name="Rediff" /> for about {{INRConvert|67000}}.<ref name="Chopra 2012">{{cite news |last1=Chopra |first1=Akshat |title=His experiments with life |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/his-experiments-with-life/article3711863.ece |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=August 3, 2012}}</ref> Bharali was then determined to continue building innovations.<ref name="Chopra 2012" /><ref name="Better India">{{cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/81244/uddhab-bharali-assam-agricultural-inventions/ |title=This College Dropout from Assam Has over 140 Agricultural Innovations to His Credit |publisher=Better India |date=2017-01-02}}</ref>


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.<ref name="TheHindu" /> Focusing on agricultural output, Bharali went on to build a variety of peeler machines to peel [[betel nut]], [[cassava]], [[garlic]], [[jatropha]], coconut and [[safed musli]], and also re-designed Assamese paddy
Bharali is known for his invention of a pomegranate de-seeder.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /><ref name="NIF Profile">{{cite web|url=http://nif.org.in/upload/innovation/5th/2-pomegranate-de-seeder.pdf |title=National Third Award, POMEGRANATE DE-SEEDER |publisher=National Innovation Foundation|date=2006-01-02}}</ref> On 3 July 2012, Bharali qualified for an online voting competition for the [[NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal]] for his design of a bench-top [[pomegranate]] de-seeder.<ref name="Telegraph 2012">{{cite news |title=Innovator selected for Nasa award |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1120713/jsp/northeast/story_15720978.jsp |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] |date=July 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912022452/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1120713/jsp/northeast/story_15720978.jsp |archive-date=September 12, 2018}}</ref> Bharali has also invented low-cost peeler machines for [[betel nut]], [[cassava]], [[garlic]], [[jatropha]], coconut and [[safed musli]], and re-designed the Assamese paddy grinder.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /><ref name="NIF Profile"/> He also invented a low-cost bamboo processing machine.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /><ref name="NIF Profile"/> These agricultural inventions only require one person to operate.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" />
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 a single person. He gathers the raw materials for his inventions from scraps. His last facet is expected to be a life-saver in the coming years for disabled people around Lakhimpur.


==Helping differently-skilled people==
Bharali has also focused on inventions that assist people with disabilities, including devices that help with activities of daily living, such as eating and writing.<ref name="Rice 2017">{{cite news |last1=Rice |first1=Carolyn |title=The non-stop problem solver who loves to invent |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41680677 |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> In 2019, he began working on an invention he describes as a "moving lifter", which helps a person move from a wheelchair to a bed or toilet.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" /> In 2020, he presented a moving lifter attached to a portable wheelchair to a 15-year-old boy and announced he was making additional lifters for students in the Mangaldoi and Jorhat district of Assam, and that he had released the schematics on [[YouTube]] so anyone could build the device.<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" />
With his machines being used around the locality, Bharali was approached by needy, if he could help them. Bharali started offering support both in the form of monthly-monetary support and calipers and others to better their lot. Machines to feed the disabled, slippers for knees, cleaners, and de-weeders for amputees, the list of his inventions kept growing. Bharali makes it a point to avoid publicity and shuns the marketing budget to sell his wares.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}


==Commercial establishment==
Bharali runs the machine design and research centre U.K.B Agrotech at Lakhimpur.<ref name="Agarwala 2019" /> He was a speaker in [[TEDx]] at [[ISM Dhanbad]] held in October 2014.  
Under his own firm, U.K.B Agrotech at Lakhimpur, Bharali works on assignments he receives from various establishments.


==Recognition==
== Honors and awards ==
 
Facilitated by National Innovation Foundation - India (NIF), Bharali was offered fiscal support under the [[Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP) Scheme]] at the [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)|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.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120713/jsp/northeast/story_15720978.jsp#.UByghe5DysZ |title=Innovator selected for Nasa award |publisher=The Telegraph India |date=2012-07-13}}</ref>
 
He is a recipient of the National Innovation Foundation- India's National Grassroots Innovation Award, 2009. In 2007, he got ‘SRISTI Samman'. 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 [[Padma Shri|Padmashree]], the 4th highest civilian award of the country.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
 
== Awards ==
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Uddhab Bharali was awarded a honorary Doctorate from [[Assam Agricultural University]]  (AAU) in 2014 and a honorary [[PhD]]  from  [[Kaziranga University]] .
Uddhab Bharali was awarded a honorary Doctorate from [[Assam Agricultural University]]  (AAU) in 2014 and a honorary [[PhD]]  from  [[Kaziranga University]] .
He has also received:<ref name="Telegraph 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/aau-honour-for-innovator/cid/205043 |title=AAU honour for innovator |publisher=The Telegraph India |date=2014-03-16}}</ref>
He has also received:<ref name="Telegraph 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/aau-honour-for-innovator/cid/205043 |title=AAU honour for innovator |publisher=The Telegraph India |date=2014-03-16}}</ref>
* SRISTI Samman, 2006<ref>{{cite web |title=SRISTI Samman |url=https://www.sristi.org/sristi-samman/# |website=www.sristi.org |publisher=SRISTI |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>
* National Grassroots Innovation Award from the National Innovation Foundation, 2009<ref name="Bhattacherjee 2020" />
* Meritorious Invention Award 2010, NRDC,
* Meritorious Invention Award 2010, NRDC,
* Certificate of Merit, NRDC, 2010, from the government of India,
* Certificate of Merit, NRDC, 2010, from the government of India,
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* Romoni Gabhoru award in 2016, from Atasu Assam,
* Romoni Gabhoru award in 2016, from Atasu Assam,
* Swayamsiddh Shri Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman in 2017, by JSPL,
* Swayamsiddh Shri Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman in 2017, by JSPL,
* Winner Of Engineering Design, in a contest organised by NASA, Tech Briefs Media called "Create The Future Design Contest 2012" for a bench-top pomegranate de-seeder - which was placed 2nd in the Top Ten Most Popular Inventions category,
* Winner Of Engineering Design, in a contest organised by NASA, Tech Briefs Media called "Create The Future Design Contest 2012" for a bench-top pomegranate de-seeder - which was placed 2nd in the Top Ten Most Popular Inventions category<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian Uddhab Bharali's pomegranate deseeder wins Nasa prize |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-19811464 |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=October 3, 2012}}</ref>
* Winner [[NASA]] tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2013", for the invention of a detention chair for a mentally challenged person,
* Winner [[NASA]] tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2013", for the invention of a detention chair for a mentally challenged person,
* Qualified for NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2014" for the invention of a feeding device for people without hands,
* Qualified for NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2014" for the invention of a feeding device for people without hands,
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* Pioneer Award, in 2017,
* Pioneer Award, in 2017,
* Excellence Award in 2018 from the [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Meghalaya|Mahatma Gandhi University]] in [[Meghalaya]],
* Excellence Award in 2018 from the [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Meghalaya|Mahatma Gandhi University]] in [[Meghalaya]],
* and the [[Padma Shri]] Award in 2019.
* [[Padma Shri]] Award in 2019.


== References ==
== References ==

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Uddhab Kumar Bharali
Born (1962-04-07) 7 April 1962 (age 64)
North Lakhimpur, Assam, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materJorhat Engineering College
Known forLow cost, eco-friendly innovations (eg.- pomegranate deseeder)s[1][2]
AwardsPresident’s Grassroots Innovation Award
Shristi Samman Award
NASA Tech Create the Future Design Contest (2012, 2013)
Rashtriya Ekta Samman
Padma Shri (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics , Technology

Uddhab Bharali (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian inventor from the Lakhimpur district of Assam.[3][4] Bharali is credited with more than 160 innovations, starting from the late 1980s.[1] In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri.[5][1]

Early life and education[edit | edit source]

Bharali was born on 7 April 1962 in the Lakhimpur district of Assam.[1] His father was a businessman.[3]

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 Madras Chapter in Chennai. He left engineering school in 1988 because his family was unable to support his education due to their debt.[5]

Career[edit | edit source]

In 1988, while his family was in debt, he decided to start a polythene cover making business catering to Tea Estates in Assam. Instead of spending about ₹570,000 (US$8,000) on buying a machine, he designed his own machine[3] for about ₹67,000 (US$940).[6] Bharali was then determined to continue building innovations.[6][7]

Bharali is known for his invention of a pomegranate de-seeder.[1][8] On 3 July 2012, Bharali qualified for an online voting competition for the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for his design of a bench-top pomegranate de-seeder.[9] Bharali has also invented low-cost peeler machines for betel nut, cassava, garlic, jatropha, coconut and safed musli, and re-designed the Assamese paddy grinder.[1][8] He also invented a low-cost bamboo processing machine.[1][8] These agricultural inventions only require one person to operate.[1]

Bharali has also focused on inventions that assist people with disabilities, including devices that help with activities of daily living, such as eating and writing.[10] In 2019, he began working on an invention he describes as a "moving lifter", which helps a person move from a wheelchair to a bed or toilet.[1] In 2020, he presented a moving lifter attached to a portable wheelchair to a 15-year-old boy and announced he was making additional lifters for students in the Mangaldoi and Jorhat district of Assam, and that he had released the schematics on YouTube so anyone could build the device.[1]

Bharali runs the machine design and research centre U.K.B Agrotech at Lakhimpur.[5] He was a speaker in TEDx at ISM Dhanbad held in October 2014.

Honors and awards[edit | edit source]

Uddhab Bharali was awarded a honorary Doctorate from Assam Agricultural University (AAU) in 2014 and a honorary PhD from Kaziranga University . He has also received:[11]

  • SRISTI Samman, 2006[12]
  • National Grassroots Innovation Award from the National Innovation Foundation, 2009[1]
  • Meritorious Invention Award 2010, NRDC,
  • Certificate of Merit, NRDC, 2010, from the government of India,
  • Prayukty Ratna Title in 2010 from Asom Sahitya Seva,
  • Shilpa Ratna Title in 2012 by Asom Satra Mahasava,
  • Rashtriya Ekta Samman, in 2013,
  • NICT Perfect 10 Award, ABP Media Group, and The Telegraph,
  • Chief Minister Best Awardee award in 2013, from the Government of Assam,
  • ERDF excellence award in 2014,
  • Pratidin Time Media achiever award in 2015,
  • Kamala Kanta Saikia National award in 2016,
  • Asom Gourav award in 2016,
  • Romoni Gabhoru award in 2016, from Atasu Assam,
  • Swayamsiddh Shri Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman in 2017, by JSPL,
  • Winner Of Engineering Design, in a contest organised by NASA, Tech Briefs Media called "Create The Future Design Contest 2012" for a bench-top pomegranate de-seeder - which was placed 2nd in the Top Ten Most Popular Inventions category[13]
  • Winner NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2013", for the invention of a detention chair for a mentally challenged person,
  • Qualified for NASA tech brief "Create the Future Design contest 2014" for the invention of a feeding device for people without hands,
  • Qualifier – World Tech Award in 2012, for the invention of a mini tea plant,
  • Pioneer Award, in 2017,
  • Excellence Award in 2018 from the Mahatma Gandhi University in Meghalaya,
  • Padma Shri Award in 2019.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Bhattacherjee, Niloy (3 December 2020). "Ace Innovator Uddhab Bharali Gifts 'Moving Lifter' to 15-Year-Old on International Day of Disabled Persons". News18. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Uddhab Bharali, the man from Assam with more than 159 incredible inventions".
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "AMAZING: Meet the Indian engineer with 98 INNOVATIONS!". Rediff India. 16 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "Assam innovator in Nasa prize shortlist". Seven Sister's Post India. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Agarwala, Tora (26 January 2019). "Meet Assam's Padma Shri winners: surgeon Illias Ali and innovator Uddhab Bharali". The Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chopra, Akshat (3 August 2012). "His experiments with life". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "This College Dropout from Assam Has over 140 Agricultural Innovations to His Credit". Better India. 2 January 2017.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "National Third Award, POMEGRANATE DE-SEEDER" (PDF). National Innovation Foundation. 2 January 2006.
  9. ↑ "Innovator selected for Nasa award". The Telegraph. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Rice, Carolyn (7 November 2017). "The non-stop problem solver who loves to invent". BBC News. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "AAU honour for innovator". The Telegraph India. 16 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "SRISTI Samman". www.sristi.org. SRISTI. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Indian Uddhab Bharali's pomegranate deseeder wins Nasa prize". BBC News. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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