PAU start-up comes up with sanitising machine, gives 7 to Chandigarh admn

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 26

Master Brain Agro Industry Private Limited, a start-up of Punjab Agri Business Incubator (PABI), Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has developed sanitizing machines with the technical and business support. Master Brain Agro Industry Private Limited has delivered seven auto rotate gun spray machines to the Chandigarh administration to spray sanitizer.

Gursewak Singh, who was selected for training in the first cohort of Udaan Expansion Stage Programme under PABI, PAU, attended a two-month training programme along with business and technical mentoring by experts in specific fields. He gave his first free trial to serve society by helping the administration in spraying sanitiser in his village near Barnala.

Under the guidance of PABI team comprising Dr JS Mahal, Director of Extension Education; Dr TS Riar, Associate Director, Skill Development; Dr Poonam A Sachdev, Head, Department of Food Science and Technology; Karanveer and Rahul Gupta, Business Managers, he presented his agribusiness in front of CIC Committee, which has also been approved (worth Rs 18 lakh grant in aid). Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon, Vice-Chancellor, PAU, appreciated the effort made by the PAU start-up in helping society in the most difficult times of Covid-19 pandemic, a serious global threat to the mankind.

GADVASU develops cost-effective sanitiser

Accepting the call to fight COVID-19 through “Mission Fateh” of Punjab Government, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, has come up with a cost-effective alcohol-based hand sanitiser.

Innovations at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, GADVASU, Ludhiana, are proving highly useful. In line with guidelines of the WHO, the university has prepared a cost-effective alcohol-based hand sanitiser.

Dr Vinod Dumka, Head of the Department, said the pandemic is a real time threat to present day global society. The best strategy at the moment was to strictly observe social distancing and frequent sanitisation of hands for breaking the spread chain of the virus. Due to immediate high demand, hand sanitisers, which were very expensive also, soon became out of stock. Dr Dumka said the cost of GADVASU hand Sanitiser was only around Rs 120 per 400 ml as against Rs 250 to Rs 400 for various commercially available brands.

Dr Parkash Singh, Dean Veterinary Science College, said GADVASU had continued its essential activities, including emergency services at veterinary hospital, diagnosis and treatment of sick animals and management of animal farms.