The reward was announced by the Chief Minister when the third year B Tech Computer Science student Abhilash Semwal, who claims to have developed an explosive detector chip for mobile phones, met him at his residence here last night, an official release said here today.
Rawat congratulated Abhilash for doing Uttarakhand proud and announced the reward to encourage his endeavours to strengthen the mobile bomb detector chip activation system, it said.
Semwal said his name figures at the fifth place in a list of top ten persons in the world who have have carried out extensive research to invent the mobile bomb detector chip system.
A student of Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Semwal has developed a prototype 'Mobile Bomb Locator' sensor.