"Sahasak Nimevum" exhibition from Sunday

The first ever National Exhibition for Inventions and Innovations, "Sahasak Nimevum" will be held at the BMICH and be held from September 30 to October 2.

"I am extremely delighted by the enthusiastic participation of leading private sector organizations to support our inventors by way of active sponsorships given to the Sahasak Nimevum - the first ever National Exhibition for inventions and innovations," says Pavithra Wanniarachchi , Minister of Research and Technology.

"Over 700 exhibits representing 22 technical fields will be on display at this exhibition. This will be a very good opportunity for the private sector to identify potential business ideas for investment and we encourage them to visit the exhibition they will have enough time to meet with the inventors," she added further.

In addition to the technical fields there are seven fields of nationally significant that will be considered for presentation of special awards. They are inventions to make disable independent, Food, Energy, Environment, Teaching Aids, Human Safety, and Import substitutions.

The prizes and the trophies for these categories are provided by the Brandix group.

"Empowering people is one of our key corporate credos. Supporting inventors becomes very much a part of that commitment. We are looking at the possibility of supporting these inventors to take their inventions to the next level. We want to be the first place that inventors think when they come up with a bright idea," said Ashrof Omar explaining the rationale for partnering with the Sahasak Nimevum Exhibition.

The overall winners of each participating categories, School, University and Technical Colleges, Open and best commercialized will be presented with the prestigious DASIS award. Dasis is a name given to King Rawana who supposed to have had ten heads or the ability to consider things from all aspects. Ravana believed to have invented the Dandu Monara the first ever air plane. The award is named after him to bridge a link between the national heritage and modern discoveries. Rightfully this award is sponsored by Dialog Axiata .

"Future today is how we approach our business. We found a very strong strategic fit between our brand and the Sahasak Nimevum Exhibition. We are keen to see that the winners of the Dasis awards move forward with their inventions" says Dr Hans Wijesuriya the CEO of Dialog Axiata.

John Keels have committed to support two inventions in the fields of Food and Energy by presenting a special award.

Automobile field is sponsored by Associated Motorways, while Watawala Tea sponsors the Teaching Methods and tools.

United Motors and Tokyo Cement have confirmed their interest to support a suitable invention to commercialize.

Interestingly all 22 technical fields are represented with novel entries. As expected there will be a significant number of entries from the school category. There had been equal interest from all nine provinces including north and east reflecting the renewed hope and enthusiasm of these areas.