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Hyderabad , Jan. 7

TWO high school students from the Mahbub College High School, a more than 100-year-old institution in the City, who developed exhibits of a promising set of devices that could help in preventing rail accidents, have received support from different quarters. First, it was a businessman from Chennai and now a private company from Secunderabad.

Balaji Railroad Systems Limited (BARSYL), a Railway consultancy company based in Secunderabad, has announced its decision to provide both technical as well as financial support to the budding inventors, P. Uday Sagar and P. Upendra along with their Science Teacher, Mr T. Charles.

After a demonstration by the students-teacher combine, BARSYL Executive Director, Mr Sunil Srivastava, and a former Railway Board Member (Traffic), Mr M.V. Srinivasan, felicitated them and promised to take the innovation further.

Experts from BARSYL, which is doing consultancy to Mumbai Metro and Konkan Railway projects, will study the devices in more detail and provide inputs to the team to enable them develop a prototype suitable for commercial production, Mr Srivastava said.

The school boys developed exhibits of a rail sabotage detector, landslides detector and a track obstruction-clearing device.

The sabotage detector exhibit for example has two optic fibre tubes that are attached parallel along the rail track and are sequentially connected to pressurised balloons and an alarm in the Station.

Any disruption in the track, due to sabotage or accident, the air balloons get deflated and the alarm is activated, the young inventors explained.

The Chennai-based businessman, Mr C. Satyanarayana Rao, gifted Rs 30,000 to the students and the teacher, as a gesture of encouragement.

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