'Innovation is application of common sense' says Padma Shri Dr Uddhab Kr Bharali

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DOOMDOOMA: "Innovation is application of common sense for common people," said Padma Shri Dr Uddhab Kr Bharali, while interacting with students on skill development at Shiva Technical Enterprise, Rupaisiding, where they were undergoing training on Handloom and Textile under the Assam Skill Development Mission (ASDM).

Asserting that in everybody's life challenge was an opportunity to establish one's own identity, he went on to say that attention should be focused and that one should be one's own inspiration. Dr Bharali, who is a recipient of President's National Grassroots Innovation Award, 2009 and winner of NASA Tech brief 'Create the Future Design Contest, 2013', briefly dwelt on his life by saying that he had to start his life from scratch, thereby implying that he had to repay Rs18 lakh of bank loan. He started making a small polythene-making machine. Thereafter, he did not have to look back and now the total number of his innovations stands at 153.

Dr Bharali, in course of his interaction with the students, revealed that he was going to start a 'school of innovation' soon where he would especially lay stress on science and mathematics teaching. Dhiren Deka, president of All Assam Science Writers Association (ASWA) felicitated and briefly spoke about Dr Bharali while Dr Prakash Jyoti Borthakur, Principal of Doomdooma College, attended as a guest of honour. The winners in the handicrafts and textile exhibition were awarded by Dr PJ Borthakur, Dhiren Deka and Abhijit Khataniar.

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