Winners Of 'Engineering For Change In India' Project Report Contest Are...

My beloved Crazyengineers, dear #-Link-Snipped-# , dear #-Link-Snipped-# bhai, dear Ramani Sir, dear #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# and "Deer" #-Link-Snipped-# and all my CE Friends, followers, motivators and all of you who inspire me.

I have competed in several contests, winning many, loosing most over last few years. There have been happiness and moments of frustrations. There have been highs and lows. But nothing, I repeat nothing I would cherish as much as this honor that CE has blessed me with. I find it really difficult to put in words of the amount of happiness I am feeling and I can't thank the entire community enough for your support.

But CE is a community I have always valued, valued high and it remains one of the place where I can always come back to share my frustration, happiness, joy. It is a place that I quietly visit in coffee times in most nights to read posts, thoughts and incredible information out there. Therefore an honor of this magnitude is really satisfactory.

More than competition, I took this opportunity to share what I really felt was an important problem and wanted to present a workable solution to it. I am glad beyond imagination for all of you for supporting the solution.

But more importantly what I see through the contest is the professionalism of Crazyengineers as Company, as a community and as group determined to bring the change. Trust me the contests were run with a degree of professionalism easily matching with highest standards of companies like Intel and Codeproject and in many ways better than them ( like the schedule, sticking to it, the result).

Dear all such contests are fun. You get to challenge yourself against possibly the most talented minds of the nation out there to make a difference. So such a contest would go down as one of the most critical process of bringing an edge of competitiveness among community members.

But I want to congratulate each one of you who participated, who were lucky enough to have been named to contest at the top and the whole group.

As an end note, I wanted to win this contest badly. Not because of the prize but for a different reason. As you might be knowing that my 18 hours working robotic body and always under pressure mind is controlled and supported by an Engineer whom I value the most. Yes, she is my wife who silently works towards many of my projects without ever getting the limelight!

Being a very competitive lady, she never agrees to accept a gift from me. So I told her, let me participate with an Idea that is inspired by the problem you faced during Voter card and passport documentation and verification. The input from her was more immense than I can share. So this little device is dedicated to the little power supply of my engine, #-Link-Snipped-# !

Let's keep competing for a better nation and hence a better world and "keep leaving our mark behind" as the lady whom inspires me most after my wife has said.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!