Talk:Appropriate Technology

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Hi!

You are so right! I read about this gentleman who uses mobile phone to ease the woes of the farmers who found it difficult to go to fields (far from their houses) to switch on or off the pump used to water their fields. Given the unreliable power condition in India, the farmer also needed to know, sitting at home, if the power supply was on at the pumping station so that he could decide whether to switch it on or cut it off if it was running.

The mobile phone operated switch designed by Mr Prem Singh Saini of Ambala (see link --www.4award.nif.org.in/html/premsingh.htm) addresses all these requirements by enabling farmers to know the electricity status and remotely switch the pump as required, from the comfort of his home and that too without spending any money.

Regards MV