News & Updates- Atmanirbhar Bharat
Indian water gun manufacturers giving China a run for its money
M.Y.News Dt. 8th March 2021
After the announcement of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan the things are changing on ground level. The water guns widely used in the celebrations of upcoming festival of Holi is an interesting example. In November 2015, Deepak Vats went to Sadar Bazar to buy toys for his son. A toy importer in the market, who knew that Vats was a manufacturer of plastic containers, showed him a sophisticated Chinese pichkari (water gun) and asked him if he could try and make anything similar in his factory.
“I accepted the challenge, though I had never produced toys before,” says Vats, sitting in his sleek, first-floor office in Narela industrial area on the outskirts of Delhi.
Soon, Vats, a mechanical engineer by training, got down to the drawing board.
His team did a 3D digital image of the Chinese water gun, and after three months of working in the tool room, Vats was able to make the required moulds to fashion out his own water gun. In February that year, just before Holi, he went back to the Sadar Bazar trader with the water gun he had produced and also the Chinese one.
“The trader was surprised and failed to recognise any difference between the two. He immediately placed an order for 15,000 units, ” says Vats. “That is how I first started making water guns.”
Courtesy : Hindustan Times
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