Noora, 46, from Chaklan Mohalla, was all smiles on receiving a tricycle in the campus of faculty of Engineering and Technology at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya. He works for tandoor makers, giving them dug up mud to make mud ovens. Getting a tricycle was not a big deal but the main thing was that it brought smiles to the manufacturers who had designed it especially for the handicapped people. The ease with which Noora drove it in college grounds made the manufacturers proud.

These manufacturers were four students from the mechanical department who used waste material like broken cycle handle, a piston, a motor, three wheels and fabricated it in the form of a tricycle. This specially designed cycle is driven just with a hand lever and has a hand break like that in an ordinary cycle.

Speaking to this correspondent, Sanjeev Lamba, in-charge of Mechanical Engineering department said, “In the fourth year, our students are given target to make a working model. Rajan Sharma of Mechanical department along with his batch mates made this tricycle.” Vikas Deshwal, professor teaching Computerised Aided Design (CAD) said that the students are planning to take this as entrepreneurship, and start their own business using waste material and generating more advanced equipment for people with special needs.

Speaking about the future expansion works of the university, the dean of faculty of engineering and technology professor Pankaj Madan said, “This faculty is the biggest faculty of the university. Recently we have started making residential facility for students for which some grant has been received through AICTE.”