Author : N.Uday Kumar Goud, CH.Nikhil, S.Anil Kumar Reddy, Y.Akhil Sai and N.Praveeen

Indian Power Sector has increased its installed power generation capacity from 1340 MW in the year 1947 to 2,50,000MW in the year 2016. In spite of such tremendous growth in power generation capacity still 5,25,000 villages and more than a million tribal areas are not having access to electrical energy. India has highest man power living in villages and rural areas whose main source of income is agricultural products only. Indian Government has taken several initiatives to improve income sources of these people by educating and funding them to set up small scale industries with locally available raw materials million tribal areas are not having access to electrical e. Results of these initiatives are not up to the mark as it requires electricity to run the machines used in most of the industries. Powering all these tribal areas and villages at this point of time is not possible as it requires huge amounts of investment and also Transmission & Distribution losses will be very high due to longer distances from power generation units. Hence to develop these areas it will be better if we can make machine tools which do not require electricity. As a part of our project dissertation we are fabricated and tested a pedal driven lathe machine which can turn wooden pieces without electrical energy at low cost.

Keywords: Pedal Driven Wood Turning Lathe Machine etc.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.3 (June-2017)