Roorkee resident Ujjwal Bharadwaj was conferred two national prizes by the Sanitation and drinking water Ministry of Government of India (GOI) in the two day Swachhathon held at New Delhi.
She was honoured with citations and cash rewards of `1.5 lakh each for her projects, monitoring of use of toilets in rural areas and operation and maintenance of toilets in the schools. Bharadwaj was presented the Sanitation and Drinking Water Minister SS Aahluwalia. The awards were distributed under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural).
Interestingly, Bharadwaj and her associate Anurag Tiwari of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh were given a place in top ten entries.
The two day event was held on September 7 and 8 under the aegis of All India Council for Technical Education New Delhi. The Ministry had invited online applications from scholars, organisations and professionals involved in novel solutions for implementations of various aspects of Swachh Bharat Mission.
Bharadwaj and Tiwari presented their projects in the mission. They have developed a device termed ‘Yojak’ under which monitoring of usage of toilets based on the time of use and smell can be determined.
The data thus collected then becomes online. Similarly for operation and maintenance of toilets of schools they developed a device termed ‘ Sthithi’ which informs about exact usage of toilets.
The device can also be used for management of menses related sanitation in different girls schools of the State. This device has been successfully used by the Delhi Public School (DPS), Ranipur mod Haridwar for management of menus sanitation.
Ujjawal Bharadwaj has done B Tech in electronic and communications from SRM University. She at present is working in a project of Tata Trust in Nagpur. The mission director Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) Raghav langar has conveyed his wishes and congratulated the youths who were awarded in the ceremony. In the state the Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented by Swajal Project.