Question: Who has recently won the BRICS Young Innovator Prize 2019?
(a) Shri Prakash
(b) Ravi Prakash
(c) Sukumar Sahu
(d) Jainendra singh
Answer: (b)
Related facts:
- Indian PhD scholar Ravi Prakash has won the BRICS-Young Innovator Prize worth $ 25,000. It was awarded to him for inventing an affordable indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and marginal rural dairy farmers.
- Prakash is a PhD scholar of ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bangalore. He was a part of 21-member delegation sent to Brazil by the Department of Science and Technology for the 4th BRICS-Young Scientist Forum (YSF), 2019.
- The technology can be used for chilling milk from the point of production by bringing down the temperature of raw milk from 37C to 7C within 30 minutes using nano-fluid based phase change materials.
- This innovation will have a great socio-economic impact for all the developing countries by preserving quality and safety of milk just after production.
- The BRICS Young Innovator Prize is to reward the best work related to research, development and innovation projects representing technological innovation and a potential contribution to the science and technology sector of the BRICS countries.
Links:
http://www.millenniumpost.in/nation/indian-wins-brics-young-innovator-prize-384934
https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/indian-wins-brics-young-innovator-prize-119111301179_1.html