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Contents

‹ Management and Systems Division of MGIRI .... 2

‹ Editorial: S&T intervention .... 3

‹ Case studies highlighting the crying need for S&Tintervention in rural industries .... 4 & 5

‹ Recent events .... 6

‹ Forthcoming events .... 7

‹ MGIRI in news .... 8

early 5000 poor women in the districts of Akola, NWashim and Buldhana undertake the arduous task of decortication of bibba seed (‘marking nut’). For want of proper tools they use the primitive technique of beating with stone. But in this process the oil that splashes create indelible marks on their hands and faces. Simple S&T intervention could save them from this occupational hazard, improve their productivity and enable them to reorganize themselves into enterprises thus avoiding exploitative middlemen.

If scientists could solve hundred such problems it would mean a sea change in rural economy and rural quality of life.

(see Editorial in Page 3 and cover story in page 4 & 5)

October 2010Vol 2, Issue 10

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

A National Institute under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India

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Registration details:

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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Mission of M&S

Operational objectives of M&S

Infrastructure

Activities

Management and Systems Division of MGIRI provides information and communication technologies based solutions for rural industrialization with a view to enhance their global competitiveness.

?Identify ICT-based innovative solutions for problems faced by MSME with focus on KVI sector / micro-enterprises and devise appropriate delivery systems for the above.

?Create effective networking among the micro-enterprises and their stake holders. In particular help MGIRI function as a reliable hub among S&T and management institutions so that problems and solutions are shared.

?Generate a database that would help achieve the above – with focus on:

- Technology- Innovative products / organizations- Quality / standards of processes and products

?Help disseminate the technologies developed by MGIRI and its interface partners through e-learning, computer based training kits etc.

?Create e-based expert systems in collaboration with interface institutions of MGIRI that would guide MSMEs.

M&S has infrastructure to provide ICT support among the various divisions of MGIRI. This includes servers, wi-fi, work-stations for design studio and CBT production lab facilities with extensive audio / video recording.

For the MSME sector the division has presently two websites:

- www.ruralhaat.com- www.greenkhadidesigns.com

More web based services are in the offing.

Salient features of the websites

www.ruralhaat.com

ruralhaat.com has the objective of providing visibility to the products of SHGs, micro-enterprises etc. Potential consumer is expected to link with the producer through SMS / email / telephone.

www.greenkhadidesigns.com

This web site assists Khadi institutions in accessing trendy designs (both woven designs and costume designs) created through the network of design labs of MGIRI at Wardha and other locations. Basically this will cater to the garment network: Solar Fab Mart (SFM) / Khadi Fab Mart (KFM) under development by MGIRI.

R Srinivasan, Dy. Director Mobile: +91 9423885811sriniran0906@gmail.com

Ms Pragati Gokhale, PSOMobile: +91 9822719618

pragatikin@gmail.com

Milind Kanadkedkar, SSO Mobile: +91 9881941766milind.mca@gmail.com

Ganesh Dagwar, Sys ManagerMobile: +91 9822726491

dagwarg@gmail.com

The core scientific team of Management and Systems division:

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ur concern is with people’s enterprises that involve Othe artisan’s guilds, the farmer’s federations, the self help groups and the upcoming rural entrepreneurs. For India’s destiny this segment is important since it represents most of the employment. Further this sector has significant link with the country’s GDP on the one hand and with the livelihood of the BPL and rural sector on the other hand. Establishing a workable link between the people’s sector is tantamount to achieving SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY.

The virtue of India’s economic policy is that it is woven around, to some extent, the social segment described above. The process of globalization, however, has become a threat and disruption to the above social connectivity. Globalization which is based on competition has brought producer communities into fierce competition among each other. In this competition the ones with a weak technological and managerial support perish. A large number of weaker nations have already been declared as ‘failed economies’ and some of these communities have plunged into disorder and have become a threat to peace.

Before aspiring to establish the co-existence of the communities of the globe by bringing rational sharing of the opportunities of the globe a large democracy like India has the responsibility of providing technological support not only to its own poor communities engaged in production activities for livelihood but also to the people of other countries with similar concerns.

A casual observation of the livelihood situation of the artisans would easily reveal that they suffer from:- low wages as a result of competition in the market - inferior ‘finish’ of goods that reduces their market value - inefficient processes that not only eat into the profit margin but also expose the workers into avoidable

occupational hazards and- inferior forward and backward linkages that put them into a disadvantaged position in this era of e-commerce and global payment gateways.

The affected communities are often unaware of their own position and have no access to the providers of technological solutions.

It is under these circumstances that we are pleading for S&T intervention from the scientific community into such problems in a pro-active style.

The present issue illustrates (see page 4 and 5) the above through two case studies. The first one is bibba processing (involving de-hulling / decortication) in which nearly 5000 poor women of Akola, Washim and Buldhana districts of Maharashtra are involved. It appears that even a casual intervention by scientific community could save them from the horrible occupational hazards that they are facing besides avoidable drudgery. In fact the poor could be easily liberated from exploitative middle-men and organised into micro-enterprises.

The second case study deals with the need for community scale designs of pre-spinning machines so that the dream of ‘cotton to garments’ could be realised in regions like Vidarbha. We present some details regarding the life-long struggle of a farmer in Akola Dt in designing these machines and what he expects from the S&T community.

We invite readers to bring to our attention similar examples so that MGIRI along with its interface institutions and with the help of other institutions of science and technology could come up with the solutions. We intend to serialize these in the future issues of MGIRI Newsletter.

– Editor

NGO intervention:The voluntary agency: Mungsaji Maharaj Gramin Vikas Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Akola has come forward to formulate a project under the RISC scheme of KVIC so that these workers could be supported through a Common Facility Centre and organized into a more productive and safe working environment (The Editor is grateful to Mr Prashant Dange for the field visit support and information).

EDITORIAL: S&T Intervention

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S&T intervention: A case study of bibba seed decortication

Crude way of dehulling in Titwa village

ibba (Semecarpus anacardium) is a valuable nut found in Maharashtra and a few other states. While Maharashtra produces B1600 tonnes per year Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa together produces about 700 tonnes per year. Bibba’s nut called ‘godambi’ is a delicious dry fruit having high medicinal values. It is said to stimulate mental ability and is said to have aphorodisiac properties. The decortication however, is not an easy job because of the irregular and unsymmetrical shape of the seed.

The seed is about 2 cm in diameter and is normally beaten with a stone (‘hammer’ !) to break the outer shell. The nut inside has to be removed by hand and a significant proportion of nuts get broken in this process – thus reducing the value of the output. The pericarp contains a black oily bitter juice known as Bhilawan Shell Liquid (BSL). It is a rich source of phenol and has significant industrial applications. When beaten by stone the oil splashes and creates injury on the body parts.

It might be noted that bibba has the alternate name ‘marker-nut’. Indeed the washer-men dip a needle in the marker-nut and create indelible marks on the clothes for the purpose of identification. Thus it is clear that the marks on the body of humans become permanent. Therefore even among the poor only the older women normally get into this work. Traditionally women start working after covering their hands, face etc. with old clothes in lieu of hand gloves and face masks. They also create some ‘screen’ (made of sacks, earthen barrier, etc). Instead of hammer they find it convenient to use stones.

A major intervention was made by the Department of Agriculture Process Engineering of Marathwada Agricultural University by Dr Moore and his team. They basically made hulling devices of mild steal more or less mimicking an arecanut cracker. They made various shapes of cutting part and finally came up with the ‘MAU Dehuller’ with an efficiency of 75% and with a capacity of 6.5 Kg per day. The device was field tried, in a limited way, in Akola and other regions. But the women workers seem to have a preference for their ‘stone’ devices.

Recently the VNIT, Nagpur team constituted by scientists like Prof Pramod Padole of Mechanical Engineering and Prof Dilip Peshwe of Metallurgical Engineering interacted with certain Bibba processing groups with a view to elicit their opinion about the type of intervention that will be beneficial. According to them the artisans would prefer to use the stone hammer but would welcome appropriate shielding system.

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S&T Intervention: A case study of pre-spinning – The struggle of a kisan

‘Kapas se kapade tak’ was a slogan used by Gandhiji. But of 2 kg / 8 hours and is urging the scientists to do something the nation went about creating large-scale cotton mills. This to make the simplest set of machines. He is not happy about has had its logical effect. The region like Vidarbha which the sensitivity shown by the massive central laboratories accounts for a major portion of the cotton production of the that “should have done their duty”.country has became the capital of farmer’s suicide.

Mr Nemade and his brilliant son Santosh Nemade are into The dream of Bapu’s decentralized textile has been taken much deeper projects. Their idea of a direct ‘spindle to loom’ very seriously by one farmer: Shri Prahladrao Nemade of system is truly exciting.Ural village of Balapur Taluka of District Akola.

Mr Nemade has a clear dream of establishing a ‘cotton to garment’ demo park for which he has persuaded a panchayat to provide 2 acres of land.

This is a truly urgent case of S&T intervention. Are the academics, and S&T-walas listening?

Mr Nemade’s dream is to arrive at a farmer-friendly and cost-effective package of machinery that could help the ginning operat ion, the carding operation and finally the making of slivers and roving. His whole house (of about 700 square foot) looks l i ke a labora tory and workshop. Mr Nemade is proud of the tape making machine of 10 kg capacity which can also do all the three operation at a capacity

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Recent events

A consultative meeting on S&T intervention on Jala technique by Khadi

& Textile division of MGIRI (2 Sept)

‘Identification of the problems of chemical industries of Vidarbha region’: workshop by Chemical Ind Div.(29 Sept)

A debate programme ‘Technological needs of rural sector’ during Hindi

Pakhawara (21 September)

Mrs Gokhale presenting ruralhaat.com in ‘New ways of Marketing of Rural

Entrepreneurs’ on 26 Sept at Pune

Panchgavya Training programme at Gram Sewa Kendra, Khadasali, Gujarat

(17 - 21 September)

Collaboration related discussion between Director, MGIRI and Dr Tapan

Chakrabarti, NEERI (7 September)

Dr Aprajita demonstrating Bio-manure testing kit of B&H division of MGIRI at MPCST Bhopal (17 & 18 Sept 2010)

Mr Ravikumar, Dy. Dir., Mr Deep Varma, PSO, & Mr Sachin Raut, SSO with the

President in Rashtrapati Bhavan (27Sept)

Mr D M Wasnik Asst. Dir DC (H), spoke on ‘Schemes DC (H) for artisans’ on 17

September by RC&E division

Mr Karmakar, M.D. NABARD, Mr Jayanandu, Chairman KVIB, Jharkhand, Mr Angshuman Dey, Dy Secy MSME &

Mr Vakode, Director KVIC, Nagpur inspecting MGIRI solar charkha during

Amravati meet (13 September)

Director, MGIRI inspected the production systems of the carpet weavers at

Achalpur, Amravati (12 September)

Director, MGIRI and the Principal, Mr Goharkar, SSGMCE, Shegaon

discussing on collaborations (28 Sept)

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Forthcoming events

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Events / Activities Duration Organised by / Led by

Skill upgradation training in advanced pottery technology at Gadchiroli pottery cluster

21 – 23 October

Gramodyog Sangh, Bhadravati

Training of artisans on muslin khadi manufacturing with S&T intervention

27 October Khadi and Textile division

Entrepreneurship on textile designing under NCRI project for Gadchiroli youth

22 October Khadi and Textile division

Technology dissemination workshop for 60 KVIC officials / khadi artisans

22 November – 9 December

Khadi and Textile division

Mapping of natural resources and people’s technologies in Gadchiroli district

4 – 5 October Bio-processing & Herbal division

Short Incubation Programme on production activity of herbal product

October Bio-processing & Herbal division

Short Incubation Programme on amino acid based on human hair November Bio-processing & Herbal division Visit to North-East for mapping of natural resources 20 October –

2 November Bio-processing & Herbal division

Training programme on panchagavya products November, 2nd week

Bio-processing & Herbal division

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