S. Rajagopalan
Established in May 1993 at Bangalore by Dr. S. Rajagopalan, TIDE (Technology Informatics Design Endeavour) is devoted to promoting sustainable development through technological interventions. It identifies economically rewarding, environment friendly technologies invented in India’s research institutions, and develops them into successful enterprises. TIDE focuses on those technologies which are suitable for the rural environment, address energy issues and build rural entrepreneurs. Amongst the many technologies promoted by TIDE are energy efficient stoves. These have been developed for various informal industry sectors like Ayurvedic medicine preparation, rubber band making, areca boiling, textile processing, sericulture etc.
Over the last 13 years TIDE has worked on technologies related to biomass energy in non formal rural industries, sericulture, post harvest processing, fish drying, waste to energy conversion and rainwater harvesting. TIDE has established nearly twenty enterprises. Their collective turn over in the last year was Rs 15 million. More than 8000 rural enterprises and 3000 rural households directly benefit from the improved devices developed and promoted by TIDE and made and delivered by their entrepreneurs. TIDE works extensively in the South Indian states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Dr. S. Rajagopalan is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and also holds a management degree from IIM Bangalore. He was the Chairman of TIDE for the period 1993 to 1999. He now serves as Honorary Chairman of TIDE devoting 20% of his time to the organization. Currently, he is Managing Director, Spatial Data Private Limited, an IT Company specializing in GIS products and solutions. This company was initiated by TIDE as an enterprise to disseminate GIS/RS applications developed at TIDE for the health, education and natural resources sector.
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