CSIR Award for Police DAV school students

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 21

Two students of Police DAV Public School have won a major recognition as their project has been selected among the top 14 proposals from across Indian in a nationwide competition organised by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Innovation Award for School Children 2021.

The project titled ‘SALIL’ is a Smart Water Dispenser created by Prabhnoor Kaur of Class VIII and Jasnoor Kaur of Class X under the guidance of Sanjeev Mahajan, Jatinder Kaur and Cinny Malhotra. Police DAV is the only school from Punjab which has bagged the recognition.

Entries are selected on the basis of the novelty and utility for any new concept/ idea/ design or solution to an existing societal problem. Any Indian school going student below18 years of age can submit the proposal through school.

Students observed that a lot of water is wasted in school water purifiers, about 3 litre of water for every litre of water purified. So they conceived the idea of a Smart Water Purifier to avoid this wastage of water. Explaining the concept, the students said ‘SALIL’ was designed to dispense right amount of water for a particular purpose. For example, if the user swipes once in front of the sensor, it dispenses lesser amount of water. If the user swipes twice, more water is dispensed. The system is based on Arduino board and IR Sensor. A flow sensor is incorporated to check the exact amount of water dispensed. There are two switches on the panel to increase and decrease the amount of water required. Mode selection can be made by pressing both switches momentarily. A liquid crystal display is also incorporated to make system interactive.”

They added, “A prototype was created and it was firstly tested in the lab for 10 days and thereafter installed in 10 different houses. The observations were quite promising as it could save gallons of water.”

Principal Rashmi Vij congratulated the students and school.