Grassroots Innovation - Anti Bolting Device
You might have faced this problem at some or the other point when you are sitting in a room and someone locks the door from outside or it may happen accidently but the consequence is that you have to call somebody from outside and ask him to open the door. Even burglars use this trick to rob your house and children always enjoy playing this prank on you. So, is there a solution to this? Yes, Mr. Gobinda Chandra Gogoi of Assam, India has developed an anti locking device for our L drop bolt doors to solve this problem. The idea came to him when he read about robbers who sneaked into a house and locked the room from outside in which house members were present and then easily robbed the house.
Advantages and applications of anti locking device
The anti locking device can be fitted to any kind of drop bolt doors. It prevents the door from being locked from outside or inside depending on the person's wish. The device finds its utility even more when someone has to deal with mentally challenged person or person suffering from epilepsy and it becomes easy for the caretaker to leave the patient in a room or toilet without bothering of unauthorized or accidental locking of doors. This anti lock device becomes important also for old persons and small children for the same reasons.
Support and Recognition of the grassroots innovation
National Innovation Foundation (NIF), a non profit autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has recognised this grassroots innovation. It has also awarded this innovation in its biennial national competition for unaided green grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge. With the help and support from NIF and its sister organisation Gujarat Incubations Augmentation Networks (GIAN), Govind has also filed a patent application for the anti locking device for drop bolt doors.
Mr. Gobinda is a retired government officer and he wants to utilize his time by doing useful grassroots innovations like L drop bolt locking preventer. He doesn't have any desire of becoming an entrepreneur by commercializing his innovations himself. He also tells that he enjoys being a grassroots innovator and so has left the manufacturing and commercialization of the innovation for others.
Advantages and applications of anti locking device
The anti locking device can be fitted to any kind of drop bolt doors. It prevents the door from being locked from outside or inside depending on the person's wish. The device finds its utility even more when someone has to deal with mentally challenged person or person suffering from epilepsy and it becomes easy for the caretaker to leave the patient in a room or toilet without bothering of unauthorized or accidental locking of doors. This anti lock device becomes important also for old persons and small children for the same reasons.
Support and Recognition of the grassroots innovation
National Innovation Foundation (NIF), a non profit autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has recognised this grassroots innovation. It has also awarded this innovation in its biennial national competition for unaided green grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge. With the help and support from NIF and its sister organisation Gujarat Incubations Augmentation Networks (GIAN), Govind has also filed a patent application for the anti locking device for drop bolt doors.
Mr. Gobinda is a retired government officer and he wants to utilize his time by doing useful grassroots innovations like L drop bolt locking preventer. He doesn't have any desire of becoming an entrepreneur by commercializing his innovations himself. He also tells that he enjoys being a grassroots innovator and so has left the manufacturing and commercialization of the innovation for others.