Nasir Bhai has created so many innovations and distinctions in auto service and design that we must create an Grassroots Academy of Auto Innovations around him. Honey Bee Network will back him up and ensure that his dreams come true in service of auto companies, users and other engaged in the value chain.

If you have things in your hand to carry to car, you have to keep them on ground, open the door and then place those things inside. If you need to use an ambulance and only two people are there lifting the stretcher, then keeping door open while taking the patient inside is not easy. There could be many other situations in which when you go close to the car, you will wish that door of the car opens itself. Well, it is no more a wish, it has happened. And Nasirbhai ( 9227222266) having his workshop, M N Auto electric service, near preyas high school, Khanpur, Ahmedabad, has already done it. The door will open only with the specific key in your pocket. And once you switch on the car, it will get deactivated. It is not just the door which gets opened. Even the rear view mirror get opened which otherwise is in folded state. GIAN is documenting his innovation and patent will be filed very soon with the help of NIF. Then auto industry will be invited to license this technology so that Nasir Bhai gets resources to invest in his other innovations. He has many dreams and if fraction of what he dreams gets actualised, he will be changing the functionality of most cars in future.

He has trained about ten young boys in repairing electronic and other parts of the cars. How good he is in his skills can be gauged by the fact that many leading auto service stations dealing in variety of imported or Indian car brands send Electronic control modules to him for repairs. Using a laptop, he repairs and then where needed, rewrites the programs in the chips. All this with education up to class four only.

When we asked about training of next generation, he mentioned that one of his four sons, mushirbhai works with him. But he has already trained about ten young mechanics who are on his own. When he gets orders for various tasks, he distributes these among his former disciples without any consideration. He takes up those tasks which are challenging enough and he finds technically rewarding. He does not expect any share in the income of his disciples whom he patronises through distribution of orders. What a spirit of mentorship by a person who himself has struggled a lot to come this far. In a world becoming more and more materialistic, such a gesture of generosity is worth emulating.

Right from his childhood, he was interested in tinkering with the things, he will reapir radio, tapes and slowly and slowly, became adept in repairing difficult electronic errors in various cars of various makes. His father is a maulana and teaches children about traditional religious scriptures.

When asked, whether he would wish to expand his mission to help other budding innovative mechanics in the region, he readily agreed. SRISTI will keep a small social innovation venture fund with him. He alone will decide which ideas to invest in ( no double signatures, no committee of so called experts…) and we hope to trigger new functionalities bottom up. SRISTI will offer internship to engineering students of GTU with this Academy through Techpedia.in, so that they acquire the sanskar of frugal empathetic innovations, generous spirit of sharing one’s knowledge and skills, and collegial learning.