Septuagenarian has key to curb vehicular pollution woes

Raghavendra Desai is a 75-year-old retired mechanical engineer living a quiet life in north Maharashtra’s Nashik city, 165 km from Mumbai. But what sets him apart from other septuagenarians is his dream for Swachh Bharat—to see India pollution-free. He and his wife have dedicated 12 years on researching and developing a unit which apparently reduces vehicular pollution by 80%. Not just that, the unit apparently helps increase the emission of oxygen from vehicles. The couple doesn’t have the money to get the technology patented.

With pollution levels reaching alarming proportions in Indian cities, the couple wants the government to give them a hearing and is even willing to transfer the technology free of cost to it.

The cost of each unit will not be more than Rs 300. It can be easily fitted to the exhaust of the vehicle.

“We are old people. We are not very well-versed with modern technology. We have been working on this since 2004. We even wrote an email to Narendra Modiji. But we haven’t yet received any reply from him. We have lab test reports. We are willing to transfer our research free of cost to the government so that it can make this available on a large scale. Modiji is a strong leader. We adore and respect him. If he comes to know about this, he will definitely solve our pollution problem. Please help us reach him. We don’t want any money. We want our country to respect the research that comes from common people, and we want people to use this research,” Raghavendra Desai