Innovator Ranjit Mirig

 Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF Anil Kumar Gupta  ChairPerson of NIF R.A Mashelkar President of India with R.A Mashelkar

 DDA, INNOVATOR & COLLECTOR at Collector Office, Sambalpur on 03 April 2013 DDO, DDA, INNOVATOR & COLLECTOR at Collector Office, Sambalpur on 03 April 2013

 A speech of Ranjit Mirig In front of Pratibha Patil  Exhibiting the transplanter to President Pranab Mukherjee   Exhibiting the transplanter to EX President Pratibha Patil  Innovator Ranjit Mirig With his Transplanter  Manual Paddy Transplanter Receiving Award from R.S Mashelkar Receiving Award

This Block level award was recieved on 2012 for the innovation of Manual paddy transplanter by Ranjit Mirig of Dhankauda Block, Sambalpur Odisha.

This is the state level award recieved on the year 2012 for the innovation of manual paddy transplanter in odisha by Ranjit Mirig.

This is the District level award received at Sambalpur on the year 2012.

This is the Certieicate given by President of India to Ranjit Mirig at the award function at New Delhi.

This is the Batch presented to Ranjit Mirig on the exhibition at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on 07 March 2013.

Name: Ranjit Mirig District: Sambalpur State: Orissa Category: Plant variety Award: State Description: Facing labour scarcity for transplanting paddy seedlings in the field, Ranjit Mirig (60) developed a manual paddy transplanter to do the same. He developed the first prototype in 1986 and kept on modifying it till he could develop a successful model in 2008. Facilitated by NIF, the transplanter has been further modified with the help of IIT Kharagpur. Ranjit Mirig was born in a poor Dalit farming family and could not study much because of financial problems. In 1986, after many years of having troubles in dealing with farm labourers for rice cultivation, he decided to make machine that can help him be independent. He was tired of labour costs, difficult labour management and unfair demands from labourers. He started work on a paddy transplanter then. It took him over 25 years to come up with a satisfactorily working model and the journey has been tough. In one of his poe