of bamboo, sizing, surface finishing and polishing them. Farming being his profession, he developed a knack for innovation in his early years and ultimately succeeded in innovating 85 engineering devices for different purposes.

Till date 13 of his devices have been commercialised. Leading organisations, NGO’s and project consultants have hired him for his guidance to accommodate machinery which have been popular in foreign countries. The Central Silk Board sought Mr. Bharali’s guidance to redesign a sophisticated reeling machine. To add another feather in his cap, he designed a stevia pulveriser and passion fruit gel extractor for North Eastern Region Community Resources Management Project (NERCRMP). Applauding Mr. Bharali’s inquisitiveness and the creativeness of his innovations, Dr. Pratibha Patil, The President of India emphasised in her speech during the Award Ceremony Function for Grassroot Innovators that “Innovation encompasses technological innovation, a fresh way of management or a different way of doing the same task, but which would result in better performance.”

Mr. Bharali also developed other machines for various purposes such as remi recortication, garlic peeling, tobacco lead cutting, paddy threshing, cane stripping, brass utensil polishing, safed musli peeling, jatropha deseeder, passion fruit juice extracting, trench digging and chopper for cattle and fishery feed. His flair for innovation was built up during the days when his father was in debt. He installed a polythene industry where the machines cost sixty seven thousand rupees when professionally made machines were priced at Rs.4 Lakhs. Slowly his innovation prowess culminated in a pomegranate de - seeder which de - seeded 50-55 kg of pomegranates in an hour. These are presently being exported to Turkey and America.

Presently Mr. Bharali is a research scholar for the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship and a Technical Consultant to Rural Technology Action Group (RUTAG) for the development of Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.