Teacher comes to rescue kids falling in pits

Children with a penchant for falling into deep bore-wells need not fear any longer: a teacher in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh has invented an instrument/machine/contraption – whatever you want to call it, to put their rescue operation on the fast track.

Prasaad Bhosekar

Children with a penchant for falling into deep bore-wells need not fear any longer: a teacher in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh invented an instrument/machine/contraption – whatever you want to call it, to put their rescue operation on the fast track.
Instead of spending half a day or 3/4ths of a day or even a full day in agony, they may now be able to come up in a matter of minutes.

Sharavan Kumar, the said teacher, has designed a flexible ring like instrument that can be easily lowered into the borewell. In his own words, “this entire equipment should be carefully dropped into the borewell where the child has fallen, as it is flexible it goes inside without much problem. When we are assured that the child has been covered by the ring. We should pull one of the chains and the child gets into the ring with the bottom part getting closed. We can pull the child and equipment upwards``

Sharavan has been able to achieve this feat without any formal training in technology. He is a Telugu teacher. But he has a good grasp of mathematics and science. He actually used the theory of probability and the Archimedes principle to make the instrument.

The news would surely be received with much relief by parents. The only people who might not be so pleased would be the news channel wallahs; bore-well stories after this may well turn boring.