Hyderabad: Village Innovation Yatra by TITA concludes today

Techies using this opportunity to understand issues related to villages

Hyderabad: Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) together with Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC) has embarked on a Village Innovation Yatra (VIY). The grassroots level event, which kicked off on January 27, will conclude on Saturday. This is part of the Village Innovation Challenge (VIC) that the two are implementing.

TITA founder and global president Sundeep Kumar Makthala said VIC aims at bringing out innovation at the village level. The effort is to find solutions locally for local problems. The VIY is now being held in Athmakur and Amarchinta mandals in Makthal constituency of Wanaparthy district.

While visiting the villages, TITA members led by its president Sundeep Makthala participated in the farm activities happening in the village. They participated in paddy plantation as part of their drive to assess the local problems. The techies used this opportunity to understand issues related with farming.

For the Village Innovation Challenge, four unemployed from each village are selected. The village sarpanch and village secretary too have been involved in identifying the problems as finding out the relevant solutions. The event will culminate on February 1 in a grand finale that will be held at the Atal Tinkering Laboratory. As many as 28 villages, 14 each from Amarchinta and Atmakur will part of the competition and top three will be awarded, said Makthala adding that TITA members have been visiting the villages personally for a first-hand assessment of the problems.

The problems identified are different. For instnace, in Veraraghavapuram, the village is facing monkey menace, whose number is more than thrice the human population there. The youth have come with a novel solution for this. They made a human cutout and once the monkeys approach it, a ball is fired at them to scare them away.

In another village, Tippadampalli, the local water body is infested with water weeds and as a result supply of water is affected to several hundred acres. Efforts have begun to use a few pipes and other equipment to draw water.