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Contents‹ A voice from the North-East .... 2

‹ Editorial: Facilitation of North East’s growth through technology and schemes .... 3 ‹ Recent events .... 4

‹ Ashti block visualized as a Rural Economic Zone .... 5

‹ Training module suited for regions like Gadchiroli .... 6

‹ Nano-curcumin’s potential in curing malaria and cancer .... 7

‹ Forthcoming events .... 7

‹ MGIRI in news .... 8

February 2011Vol 3, Issue 2

M G I R IM G I R IMahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialisation

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Bell metal plate and new bamboo product that resulted from craft training in Assam conducted by the design expert of MGIRI

Entrepreneurisation is the dream of the youth of North-East

ENDLESS ETHNIC WEALTH OF NORTH-EASTEnterprise potential : sky is the limit !

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Title: MGIRI Newsletter Editor: Dr T Karunakaran Printer: MGIRI, Wardha Periodicity: Monthly Publisher: Dr T Karunakaran Nr.: MAHBIL 05736 / 13-1-2009-TCLanguage: English / Hindi Place of publication: Wardha Post Regn. Nr.: WDA / 60 / 2010-12

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(Extracts from a letter written by Shri Hembhai, Secretary of Shanti Sadhana Ashram, Guwahati to the Ministry of MSME on March 9, 2011 with copy to MGIRI)

ore than 32 lakh youths in Assam are unemployed. Most Mof them see a bleak economic future for which many of them take arms in their hands. They are becoming insurgents. This is a serious concern for all of us. As peace workers, we have a special responsibility to bring the belligerent youths on to the main stream by non-violent means as shown by Gandhiji and Vinobaji.

So the Ashram has seriously decided to find employment at least to 2% of the total number of unemployed youths. Then the number comes to 64,000. The Ashram is working upon it. Many agencies are coming forward to help Shanti Sadhana Ashram in this honest endeavour.

A group of 15 youths both boys and girls are under-going training in MGIRI-Wardha in different trades. The managing group of Shanti Sadhana Ashram also had the privilege of having brainstorming session in MGIRI from 23-28 February

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A voice from the North-East

Young artisan entrepreneurs of NE for training at MGIRI

Punchagavya phenyl preparation process in lab scale

Some products created in the training

Shri HembhaiSecretary

Shanti Sadhana Ashram

2011. This was very inspiring for all of us. We saw in MGIRI the Gandhi in action. The scientists under the able leadership of Dr T Karunakaran are incredibly sensitive to the rural needs. We found all of them dedicated to Science and Gandhi.

We sincerely believe and realize that the knowledge and culture of MGIRI should be spread in North East – by imparting training and grass-root rural development process of MGIRI. The concept of REZ is wonderful and inspiring. It gives hope of solving the problems of North East. But it is difficult to send large number of youths to Wardha. Environment, language, food, habit etc are also d i f f e r e n t . B u t i t s knowledge is a must for North East.

Therefore, we earnestly request you to kindly consider to set-up a Rural MGIRI Institute for the youths of North East.

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& “kkafr lk/kuk vkJe ds LFkkid Jh gse HkkbZ

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orth East region has been thirsting for a technological Nfacilitation that could help convert its natural wealth and ethnic-wealth into employment oriented enterprises. The ‘connectivities’ or infrastructure needed are sadly missing: the physical connectivity, the energy connectivity, the business connectivity, the knowledge connectivity .....?

Let us start with knowledge connectivity.

With the number of Central Universities, IITs / NITs, Regional Institutes, CSIR labs North East has the appearance of being the most endowed (say on a ‘per 1000 sq. km scale’). But most of these are ‘in the making’. Even among the ‘things that are in the making’ the question of ‘relevance’ is looming large. Interaction of the scribe with the youth from various states of North East reveal that while the youth are aspiring to take to entrepreneurship there is hardly any facility that gives them a ‘hands-on’ training capable of infusing confidence about new technologies, new products and new market trends.

How do we configure a technological delivery system?

How do we imagine an industrial model that could help

transform technology into trades and ethnic wealth into export quality products ?

The ideal thing would have been for the national level institutions in NE to devote a portion of their activities to provide knowledge connectivity for regional development. The process has to be kick-started somehow and for that a different medium has to be invented so that an “ambience” for ‘resource based enterprises’ is created.

The Ministry of MSME could play a vital role in this. Its existing institutions (Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship at Guwahati, KVIC Training Centres etc.) or new activity cells through MGIRI could help in this. The aim should be create activity clusters made up of micro-enterprises based on innovative technologies of modern vintage capable of meeting local and global demands / standards. This infrastructure will also help an activity based in depth training to the youth.

What would be the right model of industrialisation that would fit into the serene situation of North Eastern states?

It would be certainly the environmentally non-polluting activities – the micro-enterprises based on local resources that are normally decentralized in nature since the activities are spread across home units to village work centres and cluster centres (when very advanced facilities are needed.) The Rural Economic Zone constituted by House Level Activities (HLA), Village Work Sheds / Common Facility Centres (CFC) and Advanced Facility Centres (AFC) will be ideal to help the rural industries organized to suit the local resources and genius of NE.

The concept of cluster is the buzzword of today. But most of the schemes have ‘revivalist’ mission rather than innovation mission. For craft, yet, the revivalist schemes will be able to do justice. But for other modern directions like fruit processing, nutraceuticals, green cosmetics and the like we have to have the approach of “new technology clusters” so that a large number of Rural Economic Zones could be identified and youth enterprises enabled.

– Editor

Editorial: Facilitation of North East’s growth through technology and schemes

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Recent events

Team from Energy & Infra. Divn of MGIRI installing MGIRI Solar Charkha in

Gandhigram Trust, Gandhigram during 17-25 January 2011.

MGIRI team visiting a coir rope unit in a Gandhigram Coir Unit on 21-1-2011 for reducing the power consumption and

introducing renewable energy sources.

PSO (K&T) consulting field experts of Batik printing on 29-1-2011 at Ujjain. He met Mr

V K Joshi, Manager, Handicraft & Handloom Development Board of MP.

Mr Bharat Damale President of Bhartiya Udyojak Sangh, Aurangabad requesting

Director MGIRI to help them with MGIRI's processes and machineries (18-2-2011).

Ms Pragati Gokhale, PSO of M&S Division explains about Rural Haat at Agri Expo,

Amravati on 11-2-2011.

PSO (K&T) observing the process of Sun Bleaching carried out for Kalamkari prints at Srikalahasthi, AP (21-1-2011).

Value addition of terracota craft being demonstrated in a training programme at

MGIRI during 11-25 Feb 2011.

Dr Vibha Gupta inaugurating the Societial Entrepreneurship Development

Programme on 16-2-2011.

Dr Aprajita explaining the processes involved in soyabean products to the

trainees during 11-25 Feb 2011.

Dr C N Manoj, MD, Pelican Bio-tech, Thiruvananthapuram delivering a lecture

on ‘Wealth from prawn and coir-pith wastes’ (14-2-2011).

Participants attending ‘Quality Testing of Raw Materials’ session in quality guidance induction programme.

Dr Aprajita organised a training to artisans in the Amla cluster (SFURTI) in

Pratapgarh, UP (23-26 Feb 2011).

30 social activists and scientists from North East, Bengal, UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamilnadu gathered in Ashti on 25-26 February 2011 to study the possibility of setting up of rural industries and services compatible with the local agriculture and culture. Prominent among them were the scientists from MGIRI led by its Director Dr T Karunakaran besides former scientists from CSIR, Jorhat - Dr T C Sharma and Dr R K Adhikary. They were part of the team of senior leaders of Shanti Sadhna Ashram, Guwahati and its branches from six states led by its founders Hembhai and Swami Babulal Bidrum and program Director Prof S M Shukla. Besides engineers, Dr Regi Thomas and Mr Kiran Patil (both formerly from IIT Bombay) and Mr Kamal Taori (Rtd. IAS) former Advisor planning commission also participated.

The team visited most of the panchayats of Ashti and carried out value chain analysis of local agricultural produces like cotton, soya bean, tur-dal etc. It also analyzed the possibility of creating Common Facility Centres (CFC) and Advanced Facility Centres (AFC) in different parts of Ashti so that the women- SHGs’, local entrepreneurs and farmers’ federations can add value to their agricultural produces instead of the same being directly carried to the near-by markets of Morshi, Amravati etc. The entire Ashti block was divided into three sub-clusters: Ashti sub-cluster (18 villages), Talegaon sub-cluster (12 villages) and Sahur sub-cluster (12 villages). The plan aimed at creating 1000 jobs. Detailed report is being published by MGIRI as a volume.

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Ashti block visualized as a Rural Economic Zone

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1. Shri Hembhai inaugurating the REZ: Planing workshop (23-3-11).2. Dr T Karunakaran presenting on REZ.3. Dr Kamal Taori interacting with the participants.4. Plan discussion in village Sirsoli in Ashti sub-cluster.5. Dr Shukla (Coordinator) singing the bhajan of Tukadoji in the

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village of Ashti, where Tukadoji lived.6. Discussions in Moi village in Sahur sub-cluster.7. The team from North-East that took the training on REZ and societal entrepreneurship.8. Discussions with people’s leaders in the Talegaon sub-cluster.

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Staff AffairsTwo scientists Dr Manoranjan Patnaik, Dy Director, Mr Ravikumar Kandaswamy, Dy Director and Mr Vikas Chowdhary, SSO participated in the RFD Workshop organised by the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India on 22 Feb 2011 in Delhi.

Three young scientists from Chemical Industries Division of MGIRI: Mr Swanand Kalambe, Mr Anil Kumar Yadav and Mrs Kalpana Pantawane participated in the special training on Gas Chromatography organised by Perkin Elmer, Mumbai during 17-18 February, 2011.

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he development of the most backward regions of the Tcountry has become a challenge - particularly when the region is afflicted by terrorism. It calls for innovation.

The regions under discussion have very rich natural resources. But the local population is not sufficiently developed to be in a position to access the resources for enterprise purposes. But when outside persons are seen exploiting the same resources resulting in heavy profits, the local youth feel cheated and take to arms.

Such an eventuality could be pre-empted if a sufficiently large number of youth from the said region are trained to collectively possess a set of skills needed for entrepreneurship. The result will be, for example:

§Emergence of local youth leadership with clear understanding of problems as well as solutions

§Better use of local resources through the entrepreneurial involvement of the local people resulting in greater local employment and enrichment of leadership skills

§Reduction of conflict since exploitative outside forces will not enter the region since there is no space for them to enter.

§Creation of greater levels of institutions and people capacity towards empowerment.

The first batch of the above programme had great success in terms of percentage employed / self-employed. Hence, it has been repeated in collaboration with a front-line NGO: Flight India which has deep roots in Gadchiroli.

A training module suited for regions like Gadchiroli

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Youth from Gadchiroli and North East region being exposed to the processes that

convert forest resources into commercial products.

Youth showing keen interest in value addition processes in the Terracotta product development. They could also understand the concept of creativity

by working with clay.

Preparation of understanding the market trends.

Khadi bags after Visit to the Centre for Science for Villages (CSV) to study paper technology

process.

Understanding of innovative bio-gas engine.

Traditional dance of North-East being demonstrated by the trainees of NER.

Personality development session being conducted by FLIGHT India’s trainers as part

of Social Entrepreneurship Development

Youth working with LED assembling.

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MGIRI Newsletter : February 2011

Forthcoming events# Events Date Organised / Led by

1 Bamboo product development and diversification with new tools and technology

input to improve the productivity

15 Feb – 17 March

Craft division

2 Training of Khadi fashion accessories / bags (2nd phase induction program) 25 Feb – 30

March

Craft division

3 Training on ‘Quality Testing of Raw Materials ’ under ADP 28 Feb – 4 March

under KVIC sponsored project

4 Training of Khadi fashion accessories / bags for female artisans for Assam 1 – 15 March Craft division 5

Participation in the national level MSME exhibition, Mandi (HP)

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9 March

MGIRI Wardha

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Participation in the Khadi Utsav 2011,

Ahmedabad

6 March –

4 April

KVIC Ahmedabad

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S&T collaboration meeting with North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon

14 March

MGIRI

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Study of the feasibility of developments of spinning tools for Ponduru khadi at AFKK Sangham, Ponduru (Srikakulam Dist., AP)

14 March

K&T division

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Manufacturing of solar products like street lights, home lighting systems training for Gadchiroli youths

14 –

24 March

E&I division

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Design and technical development workshop on lacquer turn wood craft

16 –

30 March

Craft division 11

Inauguration function for 2nd

phase induction programme of KVIC sponsored

project ‘Muslin Khadi’ –

S&T intervention for revival of traditional manufacturing technology

4 March

Nabadweep Kutir Silpa Pratisthan Nabadweep,

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Bamboo product development and diversification with new tools and technology input to improve the productivity

15 Feb –

17 March

Craft division

Nano-curcumin’s potential in curing malaria and cancer

he special seminar on ‘Traditional Indian medicines and Trelevance of ancient knowledge to present health care needs’ took place on 7 Feb 2011 with Prof Santosh Kar of the School of Biological Science of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi delivering key note address. Also were invited Dr S K Padole, Ex-Head, Department of Botany, Nagpur University and Dr Shriram Jyotishi, Head, Central Research Laboratory, Shri Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur.

Prof Santosh Kar explained that curcumin in nano particle form is much more bio available as compared to direct use in the forms of turmeric. The results of his research showed how a nano-particle of curcumin work on cancer cell. His presentation of the fascinating story of his teams success in using nano-curcumin as an effective drug against malaria (soon to be available commercially) convinced young scientists that Indian traditional wisdom is a storehouse of such challenges. Prof Padole on the basis of his experience argued that tulsi is more beneficial not only as a medicine but also as a protector of environment.

Edited and published by Dr T Karunakaran, Director, MGIRI, WardhaAssisted by Mr Shailesh Deshkar

Layout, design and typesetting by Mr Arun Shanker

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