Modified Silencer and Air Intake System

Name : Bhagwan Singh Vishwakarma102_4965

District & State :  Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Category : Engineering

Award :   National

Award Function :   5th National Grassroots Innovation Awards

Award Year : 2009

Innovation Description

  • IPR Status

m.f-1Bhagwan Singh (23) is a student innovator with a few innovations and scores of other ideas. While in graduation he developed many innovations, the most promising among which is the modified silencer and air intake system for two-wheelers.

Born in village Kotra to Kailash Narayan Vishwakarma and Kalabai, Bhagwan Singh comes from a modest background. His father is an assistant sartor in a boutique while his mother is a housewife.  Growing up was not easy due to the limited financial resources. However, he and his two brothers worked hard to study well and ensure a better future for their family. His elder brother Jaipal, a science postgraduate, is working as a lecturer in mathematics in a regional college while his younger brother Vinod is an undergraduate student. Bhagwan Singh himself is completing his post graduation in Geology (at the time of submission of his entry to NIF he had just entered his graduation).

Bhagwan Singh was shy and quite as a child. He liked being alone in his own world. He was average in studies, in fact did not like it much. Reading, learning and remembering the syllabus was quite a bit for him. Everyday, he used to walk down to his school alone as he did not have many friends. In the school also, he kept to himself. Though he never had any surplus to buy things, he maintained a box where he kept all the things (mostly scrap) needed for his creative works, collected from all possible places. He recalls himself as a child playing with tape-recorder cassettes and making models of tape recorders and similar electric gadgets. Sometimes, his younger brother used to assist him in his work. Struggling to make ends meet, his parents and elder brother seldom took note of his avocations. All they mentioned to him was to also concentrate on studies and not to do anything wrong.

Life changed in class nine when he participated in a science exhibition and won a state level award for making a model of a JCB crane. Suddenly he became famous and everybody in his school knew him. His skill to make good projects started getting appreciated. This opened up a source of income for him too. He started making science projects for students with which he financed his studies as well as generated funds for his innovations. He started to dwell more in his innovations than in studies, for which he was reprimanded by his family. Left with no choice, he worked on his innovations after midnight when all other family members were fast asleep. His mother, understanding her son’s desires, took special care of him amidst all the scolding at home and ridicule outside. His elder brother, being a student himself, was not able to support him financially but he always encouraged him.

He took a break from studies after class 12 in 2003 to prepare for engineering entrance but as he could not get through, he had to take admission in graduation in 2004. During his preparations he took electronics hobby classes at Jawahar Bal Bhavan, run by the State Government. There he met a couple of teachers who motivated him and egged on him to develop more innovations. Another major source of support was his school teacher and NCC coordinator.

http://nif.org.in/innovation/modified_silencer/23

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