Hyderabad: MLRIT students bag first prize at Anveshana 2023

MLRIT Dundigal, have won the first prize for developing and demonstrating a ‘Brain controlled wheelchair’ during Anveshana 2023

Hyderabad: Students of Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology (MLRIT), Dundigal, have won the first prize for developing and demonstrating a ‘Brain controlled wheelchair’ during Anveshana 2023, a south India level competition, recently organized by Agastya Foundation here.

MLRIT ECE department students – Md Khader Pasha and Komati Satish along with ZPHS Dundigal students – Ayesha, a Class VIII student and Shivani, a Class IX student, have come up with ‘Brain controlled wheelchair’.

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The speed of this low cost and easy to operate wheelchair can be maintained in accordance with needs. The wheelchair which won a cash prize of Rs.30,000 and an appreciation certificate can be useful for paralysis, leg and spinal cord injured patients.

Another team of MLRIT ECE department students – K Kalyan Reddy, J Vishwa Teja and P Vamshi along with ZPHS Dundigal Class IX students Varshitha and Vaishnavi created and demonstrated a ‘Crop Dryer’. They were awarded a consolation prize and a cash prize of Rs.5,000.

MLRIT chairman Marri Laxman Reddy, secretary Marri Rajashekhar Reddy, and principal K Srinivasa Rao congratulated the students.