Water mill designed by an illiterate Farmer - Siddappa

Siddappa, an illiterate farmer from Somapur village in Gadag district of Karnataka, has designed a water mill to generate electricity. Right from conceptualizing to materialisation, the farmer has done everything on his own. He operates the water mill in the canal near his house.

Using timbers, Siddappa prepared a giant wheel that joined at a central hub. There are eight arms, five feet each, extending from the central hub. A plastic bucket is dangled at the tip of each arm. When the water from two pipes gushes into one of the buckets, it generates the pressure that turns the 10-feet wheel in an anti-clockwise motion. The bucket could also be spun in the horizontal plane using a central steering wheel, similar to a teacup ride. As one after another bucket is driven by the flowing water, the first arm declines back to the ground while the other rises in the air. This process spins the black wheel attached to this giant wheel. The spinning black wheel rotates another wheel connected to a dynamo.

(He used eight plastic containers, a wooden pole, and waste spare parts, from agriculture equipment like harvesting machine, and tractors to prepare the structure. A dynamo is used, to convert the energy from the force of the water into electrical energy. He claims that he can run at least three bulbs of 25 watts, round the clock.)

A converter converts the Direct Current from the dynamo into Alternating Current through a battery and inverter, which help operate television, radio, and fan in his house inside an agricultural field. Siddappa claims to have spent a mere Rs 5000 on building the entire apparatus. This is his second attempt to show the villagers that anybody can produce electricity for self-consumption using the resources at hand. “Many people who have canals flowing near their villages don’t know how to use that natural gift. I want to show them all practically that electricity problems can be solved by being creative. There is no need to beg to the government for everything,” he says.

He is also planning to lift water from the nearby Malaprabha River through the pump set, utilising the power generated. Siddappa stays in his 16-acre agriculture land, along with his wife, three sons and a daughter. Siddappa also supplies power to his brother’s house situated in the same farm.

His creative work has paid dividends, as the children have access to electricity round-the-clock for studies. He has already received widespread appreciation for generating wind power, through an axle fitted with iron sheets.

“We lived without power supply on our farm for more than 20 years. Now, we have our own power through wind and waste water,” he said.

He gets 150 watts of power from this water mill when water flows in the canal. Siddappa claims he can create electricity for the entire village through his machine. But the problem is that the canal in his village flows only for three months a year!

India's wealth

India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India’s wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.


Even in the present, India is the richest country.

How.. ?


Mr. G Vaidyaraj, who donated all his wealth, about which he actually did not know.He is a descendent of Raja Krishnadev Raya from Mysore district.

For the last 300 years or so, three stones were worshiped in his house.But nobody tried to see what it was, except this person, who is a lawyer by profession. One day, when there was nobody in his house, he took the stone out to see what it was that they worship. Due to the dust deposited on it, from many many years, it looked only like a simple stone. But when he touched it, some portion of the stone was cleansed. And he saw a bright ray of light. He saw something which attracted his attention. And he was amazed when he cleaned all of them. The whole room was filled with light. He discovered they were diamonds of about 4600 carats each. He informed the Govt. of India and the news is censored with its security.

It’s now deposited in a Swiss Bank.The cost of single diamond exceeds the GDP of USA + UK .
India can buy virtually 7 developing nations. Even World Bank does not have enough money to buy it.
One diamond costs thrice the debt of World Bank over India. One such diamond can buy 10 Bill Gates to you. And the World Bank has proposed the Indian Govt. that it can pay India in Installment if it wishes to do so. India ‘s GDP is 34.25 billion dollars. Bill Gates property is 95 billion dollars approximate so that is the way “nature changes”.Our Prime Minister has refused to sell it. He said it will be sold or mortgaged for credit when we need it. Otherwise right now we have no problems.

Lord Macaulay’s address to the British parliament

I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.