Rural Technology Development and Delivery

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About this book

This book comprises the proceedings of a rural technologies conference organised by the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), which was conceptualized and initiated by Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India R. Chidambaram in 2003–04. The book highlights case studies and research into providing science and technology interventions for the development of rural areas. Covering various aspects of research carried out in the area of rural technologies, it offers a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.

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Keywords

• Energy
• RuTAG
• Transportation
• Crafts
• Water, Health and Sanitation
• Innovation to Enterprises
• Agriculture
• Livelihood
• Rural Industries and Entrepreneurship

Table of contents (26 papers)

Front Matter

Past, Present and Future of Rural Technologies

Front Matter

Summary of Keynote Lectures and Panel Discussions of RTDD-2018

• S. U. Susha Lekshmi, Subir Kumar Saha, M. R. Ravi

Reviews of Technology Interventions at Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG)

Front Matter

Improved Technologies Under the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) at IIT Delhi

• Raj Kumar Gupta, Davinder Pal Singh, Mangal Sharma, Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Subir Kumar Saha

Technology Interventions for Rural Development by RuTAG IIT Bombay: A Review

• Rupali S. Khanolkar, Anand B. Rao

Review of Science and Technology Interventions Developed by Rural Technology Action Group, IIT Madras

• Sandhya Seetharaman

A Comprehensive Review on Projects Carried Out by RuTAG Centre IIT Roorkee

• R. P. Saini, S. K. Singal, Imtiyaz Ali, Ramesh Chandra Joshi

Design and Development of Technology Appropriate for Rural Community to Address Sustainability

• Bibhuti Ranjan Bhattacharjya, Saurav Sarmah, Sashindra Kumar Kakoty

Analysis of Rural Technology Interventions

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Understanding Barriers to Adoption of Grass-Root Innovations—A Case Study of RUTAG Technologies

• Aishwarya Chauhan, Arpan Kumar Kar

Development of a Solar-Powered Treadle Pump

• Airin Dutta, J. P. Khatait, Subir Kumar Saha

Failure Analysis of Comb for Sheep Hair Shearing Device

• Srijan Prabhakar, Prabhat Kumar, Subir Kumar Saha, D. Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar

High-Frame-Rate Video Analysis for Mobile-Vibration-Based Crop Inspection

• Kohei Shimasaki, Sushil Raut, Mingjun Jiang, Takeshi Takaki, Idaku Ishii

Tribology of Steel–Steel Contact: Comb-Cutter Assembly for Sheep Hair Shearing Device Developed at IIT Delhi

• Ganesh Kumar Sharma, Deepak Kumar, Subir Kumar Saha

Redesigning the Humble NMC (New Model Charkha)

• R. Chattopadhyay, Subir Kumar Saha, Ankit Fatnani

Improving the Design of Bullock Driven Tractor (BDT) to Make It User-Friendly

• Davinder Pal Singh, Ajit Kumar, Raj Kumar Gupta, Mangal Sharma

Developments to Overcome Problems in Traditional Process of Making Glass Bangles

• Davinder Pal Singh, Sangeeta Kohli, M. R. Ravi, Subir Kumar Saha, Mangal Sharma, Raj Kumar Gupta

Technologies to Support the Technologies

• Pramod Khadilkar, H. I. Somasekhar, Monto Mani

Design, Development and Dissemination of Rural Technologies

Front Matter

Editors and Affiliations

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

About the editors

Prof. Subir Kumar Saha received his mechanical engineering degree from RE College (now NIT), Durgapur, India, in 1983, prior to completing his M.Tech. at the IIT Kharagpur, India, and his Ph.D. at McGill University, Canada. After his studies, he joined Toshiba Corporation’s R&D Center in Japan. After four years of work experience in Japan, he has been with IIT Delhi since 1996, and is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is actively engaged in teaching, research, and technology, and has completed projects worth more than US$ 1 million. He established the Mechatronics Laboratory at the IIT Delhi in 2001. In recognition of his international contributions, Prof. Saha was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship by the AvH Foundation, Germany, in 1999, and a Naren Gupta Chair Professorship at the IIT Delhi in 2010. He has also been a visiting faculty member in Canada, Australia, and Italy. Prof. Saha has authored more than 175 research publications in reputed journals/conference proceedings, delivered more than 150 invited/keynote lectures in India and abroad, written several books and helped developed RoboAnalyzer, a software package intended to make learning robotics fun.

Prof. M. R. Ravi is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi. He received his M.E. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1988 and 1991, respectively. His areas of interest include heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, biomass energy and rural energy systems, and his research currently focuses on characterizing gaseous fuel mixtures, and developing energy-efficient biomass gasification and rural industrial energy systems. Prior to joining the IIT Delhi, he worked at the IIT Bombay, CNRS (France) and TU Delft (the Netherlands).

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : Rural Technology Development and Delivery
• Book Subtitle : RuTAG and Its Synergy with Other Initiatives
• Editors : Subir Kumar Saha, M. R. Ravi
• Series Title : Design Science and Innovation
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6435-8
• Publisher : Springer Singapore
• eBook Packages : Engineering , Engineering (R0)
• Copyright Information : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-981-13-6434-1 Published: 07 April 2019
• Softcover ISBN : 978-981-13-6437-2 Published: 14 August 2020
• eBook ISBN : 978-981-13-6435-8 Published: 06 April 2019
• Series ISSN : 2509-5986
• Series E-ISSN : 2509-5994
• Edition Number : 1
• Number of Pages : XXV, 357
• Number of Illustrations : 28 b/w illustrations, 228 illustrations in colour
• Topics : Engineering Design , Sustainable Development , Innovation/Technology Management