INDIA’s villages create inventions which are sometimes so useful they even catch the fancy of a global clientele. Take, for instance, Bullet Santi, a motorcycle-turned-tractor invented by Mansukhbhai Jagani, a farmer from Mota Devaliya village in Amreli district of Gujarat.
About 14 Bullet Santis have been sent to Kenya under a ‘transfer of technology’ agreement, facilitated by SRISTI and GIAN (Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network). In 2003, Jagani got a US patent for his invention.
Almost 10,000 Santis and its adaptations, Sanedo and Handiyo, are sold every year. To keep up with the times. . .
