Anil Pradhan wins Rohini Nayyar Prize

With the purpose of taking these labs to students successful agrarian areas who whitethorn not beryllium capable to scope them, ‘Tinker-on-Wheels’, a mobile learning laboratory meant to connection hands-on acquisition with aspects similar robotics and 3D printing, has been acceptable up.

While Pradhan initially began moving successful his village, his organisation present works successful Telangana, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. “Even present we read… ’once determination lived a mediocre husbandman successful a village’… which means that if you are poor, you are a farmer, and if you are a mediocre husbandman past you are successful a village. This benignant of mindset needs to change,” Pradhan said astatine an lawsuit wherever helium was presented with the grant by R A Mashelkar, idiosyncratic and erstwhile Director General, CSIR.

The prize has been instituted successful the representation of Rohini Nayyar by her family. Nayyar, an economist, served arsenic an IAS serviceman successful the Uttar Pradesh cadre, and worked with the erstwhile Planning Commission of India from 1987 to 2005. She passed distant successful 2021.

The prize, comprising a currency grant of Rs. 10 lakh, a citation and trophy, is fixed annually by the Nayyar Foundation for Social and Economic Purpose, and is meant for individuals beneath 40 years successful age.

Mashelkar said: “If 1 looks astatine her (Rohini Nayyar’s) life’s enactment successful agrarian improvement and poorness alleviation, it shows not conscionable a caller mode of looking astatine poverty, but a fundamentally antithetic mode of tackling it…”