Jiva A reusable filter water bottle for armed soldiers on missions: The project is aimed at designing a water filter bottle, to provide potable water is not easily available. The bottle is designed in bean shape and has three main parts- a filter, a manual pump and a storage bottle. The base cap houses the filter and pump which are connected with a pipe.

The word "design" is generally associated only with intricate, exclusive, and expensive products. In the marketplace, the names of top designers are used to sell overpriced products in all fields, be it cars, aircraft, or even handbags.

However, design is not the exclusive preserve of overpaid designers sitting in air-conditioned studios. Often, common folk faced with recurrent problems come up with elegant and low-cost solutions involving the modification of existing products. Manufacturers of everyday items are often surprised to see the innovative and unintended uses of their products. Smartphones, WhatsApp, and the internet ensure that such design ideas are widely communicated and replicated. In view of the usefulness and popularity of these homegrown products, mainstream designers have been forced to acknowledge the existence of this genre of design, which is classified as "subsistence design", jugaad," and "frugal innovation."

The aim of the present project is to examine the design efforts of common people who are not design literate academically but who design products for the specific needs of their particular communities from the resources available to them, mostly on a shoestring budget.

Food steamers have been used for centuries. The ancient Chinese used pottery steamers to cook food, which date back to 5000 BC. Earthen, bamboo, and stainless steel materials were mostly used for food steaming. In India, steamers are mostly used in the north-eastern and southern parts. Earlier, people used to steam rice, fish, momos, and vegetables. With the recent changes in lifestyle and health, more and more people from other parts of India are turning to electric food steamers. People are using different techniques, including steaming. Food steamers are so advanced that there have been hardly any changes in terms of form and function.

Leather is a unique commodity that links the grass-roots level of villages with high societies and traditional practises with emerging technologies. For many developing countries, leather and leather manufacturers constitute an indispensable and dependable source for export trade and foreign exchange earnings. For India, leather is a high-priority industrial sector, and footwear exports are an extreme focus area. In just four decades since independence, India has made significant gains from the leather trade, progressing from the status of an exporter of 90% or more raw hides and skins to that of an exporter and predominantly leather product manufacturer.

Buoyed by good past performance and encouraged by the expanding world market for leather articles, India is on the move to increase its market share from the present level of around 3%. Earning foreign exchange aside, such trade expansion would mean the generation of substantial employment, skill building, and entrepreneurship development, as well as other widely spread socio-economic benefits.