At a time when Mumbaikars are trying to steer clear from contracting Coronavirus, a constable’s son has designed a cost-effective hands-free sanitiser chamber that has been installed in five police stations in Mumbai. Amit Kolekar, a final year M Tech student of Rajaram Bapu Institute of Technology in Sangli built the unit that disinfects persons within seconds, with a production cost of merely Rs 15,000, Mumbai Mirror reported.

With orders have been pouring in for 23-year-old Kolekar’s device, the student says that as hand-held sanitisers carry the risk of infecting others this device requires users to push a pedal installed in it to activate it. Once the pedal is pushed, two nozzles installed inside the unit spray a mist of a sanitising solution, thus disinfecting the user in ten seconds.