Name : S Shanmugam
District & State : Salem, Tamil Nadu
Category : Engineering
Award : National
Award Function : 4th National Grassroots Innovation Awards
Award Year : 2007
Innovation Description
- Award Status
- IPR Status
- Technical Specification
- Salient Features
- Source
- MVIF
- Vard
Background
Shanmugam (26 years) is presently in the third year of Diploma course in Textile technology specialising in Weaving at SSM Institute of Textile Technology in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. He developed a technique to convert plain power looms into continuous weft feeding looms, without changing the pirns frequently. He got admission directly in second year of this course and that too because of his innovations started when he was still school. There are not many examples of this kind that have to come to NIF?s notice so far in the country.Shanmugam belongs to weaver?s community. Around two hundred families living in his village earn their living by weaving and agriculture, growing cotton, sorghum and millets.He is the second child of his parents and has an elder sister who is married and a younger brother who is studying in second year of Diploma in Textile marketing management, in the same college as Shanmugam.Since childhood, he had active interest in reading books rather than playing games and spent most of his time in the village library. It was here, while in class 12th, that he read an article on NIF in a magazine and got interested in the campaign and later submitted his entry.