Devices for Carpet and Other Rural Sectors of India: An Opportunity for New Research

There are a lot of non-organized sectors in rural India whose needs are need to be studied and solved. In this paper, some attempts made by the author and his team in last ten years are reported. A few of them are in the carpet sectors. Others are in the areas of sheep shearing, developing an animal driven prime mover, etc. While working on the design and development of the devices for those sectors it has been realized that the modern knowledge like Finite Element Analysis, Multibody Dynamics, etc. can be easily applied for the design and performance improvements. As a result, an opportunity towards a new research is visualized which may change the attitude of the engineering students and professionals by focusing their research towards their own problems rather than concentrating on the research issues of the west, thereby, equipping the rural people of India and the World with more economic, energy efficient devices.