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Labourer's daughter to represent UP in Japan science event

Lucknow: Pooja , a class 12 student and daughter of a labourer from Barabanki, is set to participate in Japan's prestigious Sakura science high school programme. She won accolades for inventing a dust free thresher, which provides clean air by blocking agricultural dust emitted from wheat farms. This programme will allow her to engage with educational innovations and collaborate with peers and experts worldwide. Pooja is the only participant from UP and will join 53 other students from across the country. Organised by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), her participation is scheduled from June 14 to June 21. District inspector of schools, Barabanki, O P Tripathi said, Pooja hails from a humble background and lives in a kuccha house with her labourer father Puttilal and mother Sushila, who works as a cook-cum-helper in a govt school. Tripathi said that Pooja developed this model when she was in class 8 under the guidance of her teacher, Rajeev Srivastava. "Her innovation received state and national recognition under INSPIRE Awards and she was selected for this programme," Tripathi said. Nodal officer for INSPIRE Award, Barabanki, Poonam Singh, said, "Pooja was inspired to develop a dust-free thresher after she saw a normal thresher near her school that caused health issues to children. A lot of kids were constantly coughing due to the dust generated during threshing." Sakura Science High School said its aim is to foster educational innovation exchanges between Japanese youth and their peers from other countries. Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .