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IIT-B student has answer to CRPF's water woes

During her interaction with CRPF officials, Devanshi Saksena (25), a second-year Master of Design (MDes) student from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT-B, learnt that potable water was a problem for the jawans, especially when on the move.

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IIT student Devanshi Saksena with the water bottle she designed for CRPF jawans
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When a few Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials visited the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-B) last year, little did they know that a young student was going to change their lives. To be precise, their drinking water woes

During her interaction with CRPF officials, Devanshi Saksena (25), a second-year Master of Design (MDes) student from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT-B, learnt that potable water was a problem for the jawans, especially when on the move.

A past student of NID, Ahmedabad, she has created several innovations in the last few years, which include a menstrual education kit, and a medicine dispenser for dogs. This time, the innovator in her threw up a lightweight bottle with a purifier inside. Not just that, she also made it sound-proof. This was just what the jawans needed.

Ask Indranil Dutta, Deputy Commandant at the CRPF's Operations Branch, New Delhi.


1: The bottle is bean-shaped and can hold up to 1.5 litres of water; 2: It has a filter attached to the base which can be removed and let into the water body; 3: A pump then sucks in water, which goes through the purifier and onto the bottle; 4: After filling, the tube can be wound around the filter and the base can be re-attached
—Gajanan Nirphale​

 

"Our jawans often travel several miles at a stretch, and can, at the most, carry 4-5 litres of water. In most cases, they drink water available from the nearest water body, which might be contaminated. In naxal-affected areas, the fear of water contamination is extremely high. So, this bottle might help them get potable water at all times" he said.

Saksena was lucky in getting the help of her professors BK Chakravarthy and Hemendra Arya. "We invited a few CRPF jawans from the Western Sector in Navi Mumbai to get their feedback about the model that Devanshi had designed initially. Some of the suggestions were that the bottle should be lightweight, durable and sound-proof. We helped her improvise on her earlier design and they were satisfied with the final product," said BK Chakravarthy.

The bottle is bean-shaped and can hold up to 1.5 litres of water. It has a filter attached to the base, which can be removed and let into the water body. A pump sucks in the water, which goes through the purifier and onto the bottle. After filling the bottle, the tube can be wound around the filter and the bottom base can be re-attached to the bottle. The bottle weighs 600 gm and costs Rs 1,200 – much cheaper and durable compared to other market variants.

The bottles will now go for field-testing. Soon, for CRPF jawans, it's going to be thirsty days are here again!

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