The man India calls the “Inverter Man of India” sat down with future engineers to explain how the country’s power-backup revolution actually happened — and how to build one of your own.
Patrika reported from Meerut on a seminar where Kunwer Sachdev — the founder of Su-Kam, popularly known as the father of the inverter in India and “The Inverter Man of India” — spoke to a hall full of future engineers about how the country was given a new direction in the world of power backup, and what it takes to turn an idea into an industry.
His message to future engineers
Sachdev’s core advice, as Patrika recounts, was practical rather than theoretical: real innovation comes from solving a problem people actually have, not from chasing technology for its own sake. He urged young engineers to understand the market first, to build products ordinary customers can trust, and to treat persistence and salesmanship as engineering skills in their own right — lessons drawn straight from how he built Su-Kam.
The revolution he led
To make the point, he pointed to his own record. Starting in the late 1990s, Sachdev turned a chaotic, unbranded inverter trade into a professional consumer industry. Under his leadership Su-Kam filed more than a hundred patents, launched the world’s first plastic-body inverter, and carried Indian-made power-backup products into dozens of countries — giving the country, as Patrika puts it, a new direction in power backup.
“Understand the problem first — the technology is only the answer to it.”— Kunwer Sachdev, to future engineers
From selling pens to the seminar stage
Part of what makes his advice land is where it comes from. Sachdev did not arrive with a privileged technical pedigree; he studied mathematical statistics and law, worked in the cable-television business, and, in his early years, even sold pens to get by. It was that ground-level understanding of customers — more than any lab — that he credits for Su-Kam’s success, and it is the mindset he asked the students to carry into their own careers.
Why the message matters
For a generation of engineers entering a fast-changing energy sector, Sachdev’s appearance was less a history lesson than a template: identify a real gap, build something dependable, and keep going when it gets hard. The same instincts that once professionalised the inverter, he suggested, are exactly what India will need as it moves into solar, storage and the next wave of clean-power technology.
पावर बैकअप से सचदेव लाए टैक्नॉलॉजी की दुनिया में क्रांति — Patrika →