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"NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING", remark on our fund application to a reputed Govt. Fund. (even though the fund was just a collateral free debt', and banks don't fund such innovations). While appreciating the innovation for its Impact and necessity, appreciating Innovator for their efforts and creativity and production readiness, the learned jury cancelled the Machine whose objective is Eradication of Manual Scavenging because.. Quoted verbatim "1. The cost of the machine is Rs. 14.5 lakhs and the end users are proposed to be sanitation workers and self-help groups. The overall usage may be expensive for these users. 2. Commercial viability is dependent on subsidies. 3. The company may try and get in touch with municipalities for paid trials and absorption of the technology." Instead, these are exactly the reason why a Govt. fund has to chip in and help take this Machine to mass production and use. No use comparing Mechanization of Sanitation with commercial activities, instead it should be seen as a necessity like expenses on Defense. Let it be known to all that we are talking of Profit generating Machine which will pay itself out, only if someone financed it. It should not have been compared with EMI of a car. Besides it's the responsibility of exchequer to support Mechanization of Sanitation and save our country from the ignominy of Manual Scavenger deaths and universal shame because now the technology has been developed. POINTWISE REPLY why these are in fact points for recommendations: 1. A vehicle is needed to remove fecal sludge, how can the machine be cheaper than the proposed cost, besides there is 28% GST on vehicle and 18% GST on machine. Less cost means the worker has to carry the waste on their head or in a push cart. 2. When Govt is giving subsidy on this Machine, obviously it is a necessity and alternative is unavailable hence must be support. 3. It will reach municipalities only when manufactured and they have funds to buy, if everything else falls in place. I think this rejection is a clear case of 'Silo working' analyzing an innovation on basis of financial standing of the buyer and profit criterion while ignoring the price of human life and national dignity saved in this case or, in the worst case such a decision reeks of ignorance of ground realities among the decision makers. Hardeep Singh Puri Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Srinivas Chary Vedala NITI Aayog Official Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources, RD & GR, Govt. of India Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GOI

Can a Rose smell less sweet if called by any other name? So better call a Rose by its name. Avoiding the word #Manual_Scavenging does not lessen the burden of the wet-sanitation worker, who nonetheless has to come in contact with the fecal waste of others in #UGD_manholes, #Septic_Tanks, #Toilet_leachpits, #Urban_slums and #Rural_Sanitation. And it's damaging the possibility of resolution when the entire ecosystem capable of resolving it, instead decides to whitewash and hide the problem. We must understand that Manual Scavenging is a single name to combination of all the problems a society can have. I visualise the resolution of the problem of Manual Scavenging like holding all the legs of the Octopus all at one time. Hence the solution can't come from organizational and ideological silos, depending entirely on the existing systems or existing methods or perhaps from existing structures. The stakeholders in their present form and Manual Scavenger Deaths and Deprivation have co-existed and don't look like converging. JALODBUST through its Techno-economic interventions SANI-PRENEUR and vCUSP in collaboration with the existing structures, brings in the resolutions to the host of causes of #Manual_Scavenging in a single stroke e.g #Livelihoods #Social_Justice #Mechanized_Sanitation #Digital_Governance #Rural_Sanitation #Slum_Sanitation #Smart_Cities #Circular_Economy #Food_Security #NonSewered_Sanitation #Environment_Protection Collaborations and Suggestions are welcome Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Pratim Raha Srinivas Chary Vedala Ramakrishna NK Harish Hande Stephen McAvene Karishma Vohra Rajan Kapur Hardeep Singh Puri @Dr Virendra Kumar Urban Management - ASCI Social Alpha Villgro Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF) ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ISC-India Sanitation Coalition

Minister Mr Priyank M Kharge ji (Minister of Rural Governance, Panchayat Raj and IT&BT) Thankyou for announcing support to Shortlisted Rural Sanitation and Water pilot projects. We have created a 2-step technology driven model for 'Flush to Farm' conveyance of nutrients with a powerful Business Model for the village micro-entrepreneur and Circular Economy. On 29th of Oct '24, JALODBUST reached top 22 ideas shortlisted for award by KARNATAKA Rural Water and Sanitation initiative Department. Our proposal consists of SANI-PRENEUR + vCUSP a 2-step financially viable, livelihood generating and circular economic initiative for resolving fecal sludge handling and disposal in villages. Thanks to all the supporters National and International, we are sowly moving towards the Vision of EarthTech Australia of touching 1 billion lives across Globe. Pratim Raha Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Srinivas Chary Vedala . Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur @SIIC

JALODBUST has been listed in EarthTech top 2.5% of global sustainability ventures! Find out more about what we are up to and how you can help us to maximize our impact - be it through investing, partnering or offering pro bono support. Together, we're on a mission to impact 1 billion lives by 2030, and we need your help to get there. https://lnkd.in/gwAW6af We at @JALODBUST are greatly thankful to ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), HelloScience , Catapult Design, Together In Action, KBITS Dept. of IT BT, Swachh Bharat Mission, Vruksh Ecosystem Foundation, REimagiNEWaste, Social Alpha, Thamate Thamate

One more reason to remember our sanitation workers as Heroes, they give their live to help us survive. Once again a fatal accident raises the hope for salvation of an entire community of Sanitation Workers from the age old living hell of Manual Scavenging Deaths, Deprivation and Disgust.

Thanks I-Venture @ ISB for their vision towards sustainable future and commitment towards lifting those at the bottom of the social pyramid and selecting JALODBUST in their Propel 2.0 cohort. We at JALODBUST are committed for eradication of Manual scavenging through giving the Sanitation worker their due Livelihoods, safety, dignity and Social inclusion while the society gets efficient, affordable, ethical and legitimate Sanitation service. We are waiting for the day when entire Manual scavengers will transform into Sanitation Micro-entrepreneurs through our Impact innovation SANI-PRENEUR(R). Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Dr. Ravi Shankar

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Social Alpha deserves the best of talents because it is out to do superb. Hats off to Manoj Kumar for his unadulterated and pure devotion towards Social Impact

Dear Manoj Kumar ji, As a fresher Impact Entrepreneur i remember our 1st meeting, your story was giving me hope. Yet we have to take the decision with a small dataset, commit to our decision and only then ...... the story will say it better. In 1985, Prof. M.K.Ganjoo, our Structural Engineering teacher of great life experiences, on our last sem. last class preferred to give us, rather a lesson in the structure of life. And i quote him... In life when you come to a fork on the road, look around, collect information, do everything you can to find the best path and then without further waste of time choose one. Only after 5, 10 or 15 years down the road you will realize that you had made a wonderful decision that day, Pat your back for it. But if it turns out that you had taken the wrong path, don't worry because it was not you but your destiny taking the decision. JALODBUST is my decision, commitment is all i can offer, results lie within our destiny including that of lakhs of 'Sanitation Micro-entrepreneurs' to be and i have the patience to wait for the results 5, 10 or 15. Russell deLucia, Dr. Ravi Shankar, Srinivas Chary Vedala, Pratim Raha Nitin Gopalkrishnan, CDD India, ISC-India Sanitation Coalition Villgro

Srinivas Chary Vedala sir, I am hugely obliged to your unequivocal focus on deaths of Sanitation Workers as a black spot on entire human civilization. I was shocked into 'Eradication of Manual Scavenging by Technology' on seeing a news report in 2018. With my background in the harsh and risky construction of Mega Hydropower Projects, I couldn't reconcile that sanitation workers are getting killed in a 10 foot pit in the heart of cities with saddening regularity. I venture out to point fingers in my every presentation because unmistakably everyone of us is part of the cause of their misery and needs to feel participative in solutions to this problem, howsoever unlucrative participation may seem. I thank you for specially bringing it up with the ever so eager to help MoHUA senior Bureaucrats and proposing the sponsored piloting of the affordable, compact and Livelihood generating JALODBUST SANI-PRENEUR in 20 states so that we start progressing towards convertion of Manual Scavengers in Sanitation Micro-Entrepreneurs while the society gets an ethical, legitimate and affordable sanitation service. rakesh@jalodbust.com https://lnkd.in/geYvpG9k Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Nitin Gopalkrishnan Dr. Ravi Shankar Pratim Raha