We are delighted to announce that Window-mounted Solar Cooker project by our former student, Avinash Prabhune, has won the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award/Appreciation 2018.  The award function has been held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 19th March 2018, where Dr. R.A. Malshekar, Chairperson of the Research Advisory Committee, SRISTI and NIF have felicitated the awardees in the presence of the Hon'ble President Shri Ram Nath Kovind.

Avinash Prabhune started work on the project as his final M.Des thesis project under the guidance of Prof. B K Chakravarthy. User study of solar cookers revealed that the main constraint that restricted the usage of solar cookers was the sheer inconvenience of taking it outdoors to cook.  The window-mounted solar cooker enables the user to install the solar cooker in the window and conveniently operate from within the home.  It can be mounted on any south facing window and the temperature raises to 120 degree in  20 minutes during mid-day due to its novel transparent double wall, high-tech materials and its multiple coatings.