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Designed in India or better say, Made in India, Made for India and recognized everywhere is something we are seeing these days.
Recently two very useful products got international recognition and awards.

One is Chulha. It got Index awards (biggest design award in the world) in Home category.

Intent: limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world. The Chulha is a stove designed to limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world.

The stove is being made available by Philips Design to the universe of social entrepreneurs so that they can, free of charge, produce the stove, themselves, and generate local business while helping counter what the World Health Organization estimates is some 1.6 million deaths per year from conditions prompted by the toxic fumes of indoor cooking with “bio-mass” fuels (wood, dung, peat, etc.).  WHO estimates that 25 percent of indoor air-pollution deaths are in India, and that 800,000 infants die of related conditions worldwide, annually.

The Chulha creates a safer environment for indoor cooking in several ways.

       It traps smoke and heat inside a locally cast housing in such a way as to heat two pot-holes with a high rate of efficiency to require less fuel;

       It then directs the smoke through a chimney chamber that includes a stack of slotted clay tablets – they capture particulates as the smoke moves through, cleaning the exhaust before it ever leaves the assembly; and

       The Chulha’s chimney then includes an indoor access for cleaning, eliminating the need seen in previous devices for a family member,  usually the mother, to climb on the roof and attempt cleaning. This has been blamed for many accidents, along with the toxicity of the smoke.

 “The target users of the Chulha are all the families in rural environments. The focus for the creation of the Chulha was India, however there are similarities in many countries in Africa, Latin America and other regions, as well as in India.”
“The fact that this product can be manufactured by even the end-user creates the opportunity in any location,”  

Designed by: Philips Design. Design team: Unmesh Kulkarni; Praveeen Mareguddi, India.

Text from Index awards.
Other Product is Stacket Bucket which got honorable mention in red dot award: product design 2009

As millions of people in India have a critical problem of access to water and storing it in small bathrooms, this functionally designed product offers new ways of handling water. Stacket is an innovative square bucket designed to be stackable. This makes it three times more space-efficient, providing a meaningful and affordable yet beautiful solution. 

Manufacturer: Gnoo Designs, Mumbai, India. Designed by: Futuring Design Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India (Jashish Kambli, Vijay Kumar)

Text from Red dot award