The project, a redesign of a coconut dehusker, was taken up to improve the innovation developed by the innovator, Mr. R. Jayaseelan, from a small village in Tennessee. The objective of this project is to develop the machine to the level of a complete product with all the inputs from a product design perspective. The department of science and technology helped establish the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of India in March 2000, with the main goal of providing institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining, and scaling up grassroots innovations and helping their transition to self-supporting activities. The foundation has a governing body chaired by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Secretary, CSIR, and Director General, CSIR. Prof. Anil K. Gupta, president of SRISTI and professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF. For the last ten years, the Honeybee Network and Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) have been scouting innovations by farmers, artisans, women, etc. at the grassroot level.