Kota man offers to donate Rs 110cr for Pulwama martyrs

KOTA: Forty-four-year-old Murtaza A. Hamid, who hails from Kota and is currently based in Mumbai, has offered to donate Rs 110 crore from his taxable income to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the welfare of martyred jawans in the recent Pulwama attack. Hamid, through email to PMO has sought an appointment to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard. Blind since birth, Hamid did his graduation in commerce from Government Commerce College, Kota and is currently working as a researcher and scientist in Mumbai.


Speaking to TOI on the phone on Sunday morning, Hamid the national relief fund deputy secretary Agni Kumar Das has asked Ali to send his profile. On asking what inspired him to donate for the martyrs, Hamid said, “The inspiration to help and support those who lay down their lives for our motherland should be in the blood of every citizen of the country.”

Hamid, however regrets that had his scientific innovation been recognized timely by the government, tragic incidents like Pulwama attack could have been checked. He claimed that he has innovated ‘Fuel Burn Radiation Technology’ which helps to trace and locate any vehicle or object without GPS, camera or any other technical equipment. Hamid claimed that he had forwarded the proposal to hand it over free of cost to the government and National Highways Authority of India in September 2016 but he received initial approval two years later in October 2018. Further development on the same is still awaited.

On asked about his innovation in science and technology despite being a commerce graduate, Hamid said a fire incident at a Jaipur petrol pump in 2010 prompted him to study as to what led to fuel catching fire when one talked on mobile phone. Further studies in the field led him to innovate ‘Fuel Burn Radiation Technology’.