We are hopeful that our small initiative will become a revolution with your participation for making these innovators a successful lot. gian hopes that the success stories of these grassroots innovators may turn them into role models for our youth and help percolate the spirit and ethic of innovation, and enterpreneurship deep down their minds. Priced at Rs 2,500-3,500, it cools water by almost 10 degrees and keeps perishable items like milk, fruits and vegetables, fresh for four to five days. gian has since its inception functioned as an incubator for such grassroots innovations and has successfully launched ten such innovations as commercial products and five as social products in the market. After three years of testing soils and fridge designs with the help of family members, Prajapati finally came out with the Mitticool fridge in 2005. Mitticool is a natural refrigerator made entirely from clay to provide natural coolness without any electricity or any other artificial form of energy. The ultimate objective is to generate new models of poverty alleviation, rural development, employment generation and conservation of natural resources without impairing the ecological balance. In this effort it provide the innovators with adequate linkages to modern science and technology, market research, design institutions and funding organizations. gian's major aim is to scale up and spawn grassroots innovations and help development of successful enterprises. Representatives to the board are from government of gujarat, indian institute of management, ahmedabad, commercial bodies such as gujarat venture fund limited and social organizations such as sewa, sristi and gopaldham (gram swaraj shikshan kendra). The company claims that vegetables kept in the fridge keep fresh for up to a week and that the fridge can also be used to store dairy products. Governing board of gian comprises eminent academicians, policy framers and social workers. The Mitticool is front loading and the dual purpose water reservoir acts as a both cooling mechanism as well as a cool water dispenser. Gian west has been given the status of scientific and industrial research organisation (siro) by the department of scientific and industrial research (dsir), government of india. All donations to gian are exempt from income tax under section 80g(5) of the income tax act. Gian is registered under the bombay public charitable trust act of 1861 as a trust and a society. The refrigerator is 100 bio gradable, uses. Mitti means clay, his refrigerator is divided into two chambers, the water from the top chamber seeps through the inner sidewalls, cooling the lower food chamber through evaporation. Gujarat grassroots innovations augmentation network (gian) was set up on mawith support from government of gujarat, society for research and initiatives for sustainable technologies and institutions (sristi) and indian institute of management ahmedabad (iima). Being a clay artisan himself, he developed the world’s first sustainable, eco-friendly refrigerator Mitti-cool.
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