The e-book titled 'design blossoms...;
Young Designers' Strategic Design Vision for MSMEs' has recently been launched. The e-book is the compilation of 51 student design project
outcomes, the outcomes of final year thesis projects supported through the
scheme.
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| The Director, NID and Chairman, PIC, Design Clinic Scheme for MSMEs, along with the team members launching the book at west zone office, Ahmedabad |
The ambitious design clinic scheme for
MSMEs provides opportunity for the MSMEs
to explore design through student design projects. The scheme reimburses 75% (
maximum up to Rs.1.5 L) of the expenditure for the final year thesis /diploma
projects for the young designers.
Over 55 design and engineering institutes have
registered with the scheme and till date
100 student design projects have been financially supported. 78 of these
projects have already been completed while remaining projects are at various
stages of their completion. These projects while, offering opportunities for
the MSMEs to explore design with lower financial investments ( 25% with maximum
up to Rs.50,000.00), they also offer the much needed opportunity for the young
designer and engineers to work with MSMEs on live project and prove their
capabilities.
The e-book lists salient features of the
selected 51 project outcomes. Detailed project documents of these projects are
uploaded on the scheme website. The students designers have worked in the
sectors ranging from health, safety and security; agricultural equipment; auto
components; machinery; handicrafts; garments etc. While some of these project
court comes have already been launched, other projects are in the process of
their further developments.
The project 'Design of Electric Chimney and Solar LED Street Light to Drive The
Economy of ‘Reuse'' by the
student designers Anand Karelia
& Nitish Maurya, for the MSME unit Epsilon Engineering Pvt. Ltd.,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat has been listed for i-design
award. Another project
titled 'Low Cost Sanitary Napkin Making Machine' by the
student designer Surbhit Arora of ITM university, Gurgaon, won 1st prize during
the national seminar on "Rural Entrepreneurship: Tapping the Grassroot
Innovation in Micro Enterprise"
The e-book is available on the scheme website
and can be viewed at
http://www.designclinicsmsme.org/wp-content/themes/default/docs/designblossoms.pdf
