Name : Umesh Chandra Sarma
District & State : Lakhimpur, Assam
Category : Engineering
Award : State
Award Function : 8th National Grassroots Innovation Awards
Award Year : 2015
Price : 1) Model 1: Rs. 2 lacs, 2) Model 2: Rs. 2.5 lacs, 3) Model 3: Rs. 3 lacs
Innovator Profile
Innovation Description
Technical Specification
Salient Features
Umesh Chandra (55), an innovator entrepreneur from North Lakhimpur, has developed interlocking bricks and a machine to make the bricks. These bricks facilitate faster and cheaper construction due to the interlocking design, which further reduces consumption of mortar and requirement of skilled labors.
Background
Umesh is one such person whose strong will to own a home despite financial constraints led him to first develop a new kind of interlocking bricks and then a machine for making those bricks. Only class tenth pass, Umesh makes his living by selling stone chips, construction sand, cement etc. Now a considerable part of his total earning comes from selling his innovative product. In his family he has his wife and two sons, who are school students.
http://nif.org.in/innovation/interlocking-brick-making-machine/772