Keerthana Prasad, Senior Lecturer : The project proposal "BMD Scan" submitted by Keerthana Prasad and Prof. Harischandra Hebbar, (Manipal BOP Chair) of Manipal Centre for Information Sciences, Manipal has won the Rural innovation fund award offered by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation. Out of the 800 + projects submitted to the foundation only 9 got selected for funding and BMDScan is one of them. The foundation is jointly funded by Microsoft, Telecentre.org, Canada's International Development Research Centre & Swiss Agency for Development & Co-operation. The total amount of the fund is going to be US$ 15,000 for the duration of 6 months.