Project Title: Social innovation- poster campaign.

Project PI: Prof. Hiralal Prajapati

In present time, society has faced social challenges and responsibilities whereas government has various schemes and policies try to spread awareness but it could not make an impact among society to change in personal behaviors. This happens because there is communication gap between policy makers/government and public. So now it becomes more urgent to aware public genuinely about social issues through interactive posters campaigns with collaboration of responsible authority in support with highlighting governmental guideline to restrain the challenging social issues. The listed social issues including for project are following: “Swachh kashi, healthy kashi”,”Namami Gange”, “Smart city Varanasi “, “Traffic Rules”, “Environmental Issues”, “Saving the Girl Child” and “Woman Empowerment”.

Project Title: Mini Waste Oil Metal Furnace, 15-25kg Bronze Melting Capacity.

Project PI: Mr. Amresh Kumar

Mini waste oil metal furnace is an innovative working prototype for developing a small scale, immediate and individual metal castings for sculptural purpose could be expedited leading to cost and energy effectiveness. The furnace is going to be made for bronze metal, capacity of 15-25kg at a time. Bronze metal may melt within 2 hours approximately. Fuel use for the furnace is automobile waste Mobil oil. Its cost value in comparison to hard coal is 1/4th. This machine is one man operating mechanism. Due to its lightweight furnace is easily transportable and transferable.

Project Title: Developing an innovative design series for children’s wear.

Project PI: Dr. Jasminder Kaur

The project is for developing an innovative design in apparel series for children’s wear. There is a need of developing a whole new series of designs to introduce a customized range of children’s wear in Chikenkari, with keeping in view the likes and preferences of them, i.e. cartoon figures, animals, birds, butterflies and redesigned flora etc. Chikenkari is a very popular in embroidery cloth and is worn throughout the year. This is generally a clothing of grownups or adults. This embroidery is done on many articles now, i.e. salwar-suit, sari-blouse, cushion-covers, bed sheets etc.

Project Title: An innovative design series for Block printed fabric .

Project PI: Dr. Jasminder Kaur

The project is an initiative for developing an innovative design series for Block printing. As a designer I believe that these wall painting motifs and forms can be translated on block and we can develop an innovative series of deigns for textile world of block printing. These forms and motifs are very rich and perfect to be translated in the Block printing. These catchy motifs are the forgotten treasure of Indian art and they not only attract us but also inspired me to use them in Block printing.

Project Title: Innovative Rooftop cum Cycle stand.

Project PI:Sri Binod Singh & team

The project is aimed at creating a creative rooftop for cycle stand, in Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU. The area identified spans from the front of faculty towards its back gate. The project has practical utilitarian approach coupled with artistic treatment. With student as focus group, the project intends to utilize students from Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU. These students group will work in closed coordination with various faculty members in generating innovative and modified design solutions (practical based) for creating unique Rooftop-cum-Cycle Stand.

Project Title: An integrated signage system for heritage buildings of Varanasi (Ancient Temples) and Banaras Hindu University.

Project PI: Dr. Shanti Swaroop Sinha and Dr. Manish Arora

It’s an effort to create and spread awareness about safety and greatness of Indian architectural beauty with modern digital platform for better understanding about the Indian Art and Heritage. The project also provides accurate and educative information to visitors and tourists as well as students across the globe about Indian Art and Heritage. Directional flags put/ added to existing Heritage buildings of Varanasi and BHU signage poles at all around us. Directions pointers indicate the directions of important Heritage buildings. Heritage Location Boards that have a map of the Varanasi and the BHU areas, with the location of all Heritage buildings marked on it. These are to be placed at a popular tourist destinations, market complex and institutes.

Project Title: BHU & IIT (BHU): Interactive Website & Mobile app.

Project PI:Dr. Manish Arora

This project is one of its kind approach for an Academic standard, to develop interactive website and Mobile app for BHU & IIT (BHU). Website & Mobile app developments are design and tested by BHU students. The project is Test and trial model of Interactive website and Mobile app operating systems. As we all know that website and mobile app is the future and with that comes mobile websites and apps.

Project Title: BHU Souvenir Business Model.

Project PI:Dr. Manish Arora

BHU Souvenir project is a business model, will work in 2 stages – initially it will work as creative prototype models through Idea development and souvenir making from waste material. Secondary stage of the model is Business facet of project by selling those souvenirs to visitor’s coming to visit BHU Campus.

Project Title: Re-designing Games (Prototype to Entrepreneur model).

Project PI:Dr. Manish Arora

Redesigning game project is an effort to modifying old games structure with same technique and working process, but different presence and design. The project is having practical approach and experiment oriented background. The project is based on entry-level and school-level students innovative and modified solutions (practical based) for redesigning games (indoor and outdoor).

Project Title: Varanasi Tourism.

Project PI:Mr. Ashish Kr. Khanna & team

Varanasi is the one of the popular destinations between tourists and travelers. Keeping this in mind I am designing this mobile application to provide more information and details with accuracy, which is helpful for tourists and travelers. The app tells about the history of Varanasi, gives informations of Varanasi Ghats – Aarti time & place details, event information and boating fair with other details. It is also interesting to get detail information of exclusive events of Ghats like Dev-Dipawali and Chhath Puja. Mobile App gives information of exclusive places and events of Varanasi such as ‘the Kashi-Vishwanath temple’, ‘Sankatmochan temple’, ‘Buddha Mahotsav/Buddha Purnima’, ‘Rammleela’ and more.

Project Title: To Design an online health service app for the society to get Hospital service at home: Healthy India.

Project PI:Mr. Ajay Kumar

Short Description: Since we lack a general online health service to get service at home, we want to design and application for health service at home to improve health service, quality of life, reach for everyone to health service as well as manage and improve the health service in a country like India with a huge population away from decent health service. This is an online app to get all the disease cure service at home in which the patient will call the doctor and doctor will go to cure him at his home.

Project Title: A Prototype Bioreactor for Kitchen Waste Disposal.

Project PI:Prof. R.K. Asthana, Centre of Advance Studies, Department of Botany, BHU

India generates 188,500 tons of MSW (or 68.8 million tons per year) and this increases by 50% every decade. (1) Some of this waste will be recovered by an army of informal recyclers (20% in large cities, lesser in smaller cities), leaving more than 80% to reach open dumpsites where it causes damaging public health, deteriorating the environment and causes climate change. Therefore, we aimed at using innovatively designed bioreactor a mosaic of engineering design compounded with biologist expertise in microbiological process generated low cost technology to be used by every house in the city/villages for multipronged benefits in remediation of kitchen waste especially plant products/ vegetables waste via generation of biogas as well as bio fertilizer. However, recycling model is left untouched. In commemoration of centenary celebration we at BHU should initiate a process like this to become a paragon for other academic institution in managing its paper wastes. Thus we firmly believe that the present project proposal will support our hopes for the scope of eco-friendly paper waste management.

Project Title: Developing Android App for real time estimation and visualization of irrigation water demand.

Project PI: Dr. Prashant Kumar Srivastava Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, BHU

The accurate estimation of soil moisture is important for understanding the ecosystem services. The aim of tis project is to monitor and display irrigation water demand using the mobile technology. Irrigation water management represents the use of the suitable quantity of water at the proper time and it is usually pursued by combining measurements of soil moisture with an optimized irrigation plan, resulting in maximum crop yields and minimum leaching of water and nutrients to the groundwater. The accurate soil moisture estimation by continuous monitoring of soil moisture for irrigation scheduling will help in improving the management of water resources and reduce pressure on the society facing water scarcity. Farmers need the information on irrigation water demand on regular basis in order to provide the irrigation on time. Further, any sudden changes in weather can also be understood by regular monitoring of soil water content. By using the mobile technology, the condition of soil and irrigation water demand can be displayed in real time on daily basis that will be helpful for the water resource management.

Project Title: Accelerated Tooth Movement (Wilcodontics) Novel Electrical Method.

Project PI: Dr. Ashish Agrawal Department of Dental Science, Institute of Medical Science, BHU

Usually orthodontic treatment requires a long duration of 2 years, which possesses high risk of caries, gingival diseases, external root resorption and decreased patient compliance. Therefore accelerated tooth movement is desirable for its multiple potential benefits, which includes shorter treatment duration, reduced side effects, enhanced envelop of tooth movement. Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon in which deformation of the crystal structure produces a flow of current. Similar phenomena occur in bony structure when external mechanical force is applied, piezoelectric current is generated, which activates the biochemical mediators for bone formation and resorbtion such as OPG & RANKEL etc. Addition of artificial piezoelectric current by application of micro milli Ampere DC current along with mechanical force can potentiate the rate of tooth movement by considerable amount. This device if proved successful will not only be beneficial in field of orthodontics but will prove beneficial in field of orthopedics in terms of bone healing and redirecting bone growth.

Project Title: Development of Indigenous low cost expandable cage system for spine surgery in India Population.

Project PI: Dr. Sanjay Yadav Department of Orthopedic, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU

Anterior column reconstruction is an important aspect of spine surgery. Traditionally, this was achieved with one's own bone like iliac crest or fibula or rib. Subsequently, mesh cages made of titanium were used. Harms et al described these. They have their own advantages & disadvantages. Further expandable cages were developed. Initial designs have problem of cage subsidence (cage gets pushed into the vertebral body end plates). So, we propose the development of expandable edge-loading cage design. We hypothesize that this will cause less subsidence & transform into better outcomes. As a further advancement of this proposal, we also plan/propose to coat the end plates of expandable cage with hydroxyapatite which should lead to better fusion and bony integration. An alternative method for the cancer drug development is required. Number of spine cases operated/ treated in Dept. of Orthopedics, IMS, BHU is substantial- more than 30 cases / month. Anterior column needs reconstruction in various cases- trauma, tumor, infection such as tuberculosis, which is very common. If the project materializes, this can be marketed with competitive cost and benefit to the patient.

Project Title: Designing a cell based prototype for the high throughput screening of cancer drug.

Project PI:Dr. S.C. Gupta and Dr. S.Srikrishna Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, BHU

Despite the significant resources being invested in the drug development, total number of effective cancer drugs developed to-date is no significant. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the development of prototype that can help for the high throughput screening of safe, inexpensive and readily available anti-cancer drug. In the application, be proposed to develop a ‘Cell-based prototype’ for the high-throughput screening of anti-cancer drugs. Thus the proposed study will help identifying potential drug through high-throughput screening in a cost effective manner. We proposed one year for the project within which time a significant progress is anticipated. The completion of the project will lead to development of novel drugs of natural origin that will help for the prevention and treatment of Cancer. The development of the prototype will greatly help in reducing the cost associated with the cancer drug development process.

Project Title: Designing a fabrication a noval Bilirubin interface removal device for clinical laboratories.

Project PI:Dr. Kamlesh Manohar Plandurkar Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Medical Science, BHU

Elevated concentrations of bilirubin are source of endogenous interference. Part of the interference arises from the spectral properties of bilirubin, another part from bilirubin’s ability to react chemically with reagents. Bilirubin reacts with peroxidase- catalyzed reactions, as are used in the detection systems for glucose, cholesterol, and uric acid. Bilirubin causes a negative interference with Jaffe’s method for creatinine. Also, bilirubin causes a negative interference with the enzymatic method for creatinine that is based on creatinine, creatinase, and sarcosine oxidase and detects H2O2 with peroxidase. Bilirubin interferes with determinations of uric acid, cholesterol, and triglycerides that use peroxidase-coupled reactions. Part of the interference is chemical, thought to be cause by the destruction by bilirubin of a reaction intermediate, which is partially corrected by adding Ferro cyanide to the reagents. To the best of our knowledge, the proportion of bilirubin in serum or plasma between conjugated or unconjugated is not a significant factor for interference. They might lead to partial correction of result in one of the parameters while interfering with result of all other parameters. This will lead to loss of precious samples especially in neonates. This problem has lead to find out a physical way for removal of chemical and spectral interference of Bilirubin so as to give accurate values of various laboratory parameters normally affected by hyperbilirubinemia.

Project Title: Development of Indigenous Novel Climate Resident microbial consortia for enhancing vegetable product.

Project PI:Dr. Jay Prakash Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, BHU

Anterior column reconstruction is an important aspect of spine surgery. Traditionally, this was achieved with one's own bone like iliac crest or fibula or rib. Subsequently, mesh cages made of titanium were used. Harms et al described these. They have their own advantages & disadvantages. Further expandable cages were developed. Initial designs have problem of cage subsidence (cage gets pushed into the vertebral body end plates). So, we propose the development of expandable edge-loading cage design. We hypothesize that this will cause less subsidence & transform into better outcomes. As a further advancement of this proposal, we also plan/propose to coat the end plates of expandable cage with hydroxyapatite which should lead to better fusion and bony integration. An alternative method for the cancer drug development is required. Number of spine cases operated/ treated in Dept. of Orthopedics, IMS, BHU is substantial- more than 30 cases / month. Anterior column needs reconstruction in various cases- trauma, tumor, infection such as tuberculosis, which is very common. If the project materializes, this can be marketed with competitive cost and benefit to the patient.