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In our weekly feature #Tech Thursdays, we bring you the story of an innovation called Handicare that is helping people with lower limb disability move around comfortably. A final year student of mechanical engineering, Sumanth Mudaliar happened to notice the difficulties faced by people with lower limb disability while moving around. That was the trigger for Handicare, a device that helps disabled people move around in a more hygienic and comfortable manner. [embed]https://youtu.be/YVyUNw9VNH4[/embed] Handicare, which won second prize at the Aarohan Social Innovation Awards given out by Infosys Foundation has been developed by Mudaliar and fellow engineering student Vishrut Bhatt as part of their start up, Onceptual Technologies We noticed that the people with a disability in their legs are moving on the road on a board by pushing their hands on the floor. This causes a great difficulty as…

New Handicare: Device helps those with lower limb-mobility issue move in more hygienic way A mobility device that helps the differently-abled move about in a more hygienic way has won two city-based students the second position at the Aarohan Social Innovation Awards given out by Infosys Foundation. The award also includes a prize of Rs 15 lakh. The mobility device, nicknamed Handicare, allows for those with lower limb-disability to move about without having to touch the floor. The mobility device is part of the product developed by two engineering students, Sumanth Mudaliar and Vishrut Bhatt, as part of their start up business Conceptual. "This device is particularly for use indoors and in campus. In the outdoors, often those with lower limb-disability can move around in a wheelchair, but that becomes…