A professor from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Charu Monga has designed more than 200 backpacks with solar lights.
The backpacks have been designed to help kids in the villages to study when there is no light.
The special thing is that these backpacks are completely waterproof and the lights is hand-free.
The backpacks were made of recycled plastic and are called ‘Jugnu’.
The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriya Nishank has tweeted and congratulated Professor Charu Monga for this innovation.
“@IITGuwahati professor Charu Monga has designed over 200 backpacks with solar lights to help kids in villages study. These waterproof backpacks are called Jugnu, & were made using recycled plastic,” the minister said in a tweet.
.@IITGuwahati professor Charu Monga has designed over 200 backpacks with solar lights to help kids in villages study. These waterproof backpacks are called Jugnu, & were made using recycled plastic. pic.twitter.com/yxQwHIEBHs
— Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) January 8, 2021
According to Charu, “The most important thing is that children won’t have to worry about charging this light, or forgetting it at school or at home. Each backpack also has a lab kit that children can use for their own inventions.”
According to The Better India, Charu also established community innovation hubs, which aim to provide everyone access to devices like Virtual Reality headsets and well-curated course content so that they’re encouraged to create and invent on their own.
“So many children have come up with numerous solutions, like solar-powered boats and LED lights to solve the problems they were facing in their districts,” Charu said.
Through this effort, Charu has organized Science, Design and Innovation workshops for more than 2,500 students and distributed more than 200 Jugnu backpacks to 20 schools across seven districts.
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