Dr Uddhab Bharali, who is a widely acclaimed techie of theregion who has innovated a number of useful machines till date for the commonpeople, will be felicitated with the Lachit Award on Lachit Divas on November24.

Bharali is credited with about 118 innovations, startingfrom the late 1980s.

The award will be conferred by the Tai Ahom Yuba Parishad. It may be pertinent to add here that Dr. Bharali, whose name is his identity, is famed across the globe through his innovations.

He is credited with 39 universal patents and also conferred the World Technology Award, 2012 by the World Technology Network for a mini CTC tea plant that aims to help smalltime tea pluckers and farmers, besides the NASA Technology Award 2012 for his desktop pomegranate de-seeding machine.