Menstrual Man

By Group-3HariniAnzir A.MLata yadavSiddharth maurya

• Menstrual Man aka Arunachalam Muruganantham

• Social entrepreneur from Coimbatore , TN

• Inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine

• Innovated grass-roots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstrual in rural india

• His mini machine Can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads

INTRODUCTION

• Planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations

• Invention came at great personal cost - he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society

• No interest in making lot of money.

•  In 2014, TIME placed him in its list of "100 Most Influential People in the World" - Pioneers.

LIFE

• He grew up in poverty

• He lost his father in car accident and his mother was worker in farm

• He was good student but he dropped out of school at the age of 14

• 1998-got married

• He discovered his wife uses filthy rags in menstrual cycle

• Costly sanitary napkins available in market is the reason behind this unhygienic practice

• He decided to develop low cost product

• Initially he used cotton but that product was rejected by his wife and sister

• He bought commercial product and realized raw materials used in that product hardly cost 10 paisa that time.

• He looked for female volunteers but at last he tried on himself

• For his experiments he was ostracized by community

• Even his wife and mother decided to leave him

• But he didn’t lose hope

• Now he is well known for social entrepreneur.

INVENTION

Purpose : • Low-cost of machine was

required to produce along with minimal training required to operate.

• Quality to meet the demand.

Cost of machines- Comparison:• Imported Machines : 3.5 crores• Invented Machine

• Mini-Machine HigherVersion

Rs.65,000 Rs.3 Lakhs

Stages of Production in Machine:• The semi-automatic machine deploys

4 stages for finished products:

• Main Raw Materials used in this machine are : wood-fiber, thermo bonded non-woven, polyethylene, release paper & super bonded paste.

The 4 stages :• First Stage : Conversion of raw material into de-fiberation pulp.• Second Stage : Conversion of de-fiberated pulp into required

shape• Third stage : Sealing of the Product• Fourth Stage : Passing through Sterilization unit

Invention into limelight:

• At 2006, he visited IIT-Madras to show his idea & get suggestions• His idea was registered for the ‘National Innovation Foundation's

Grassroots Technological Innovations Award’ & it won the award.

• He received it from President Pratibha Patil.• This event brought him into the media spotlight and he obtained

some seed funding and founded ‘Jayaashree Industries’, which now markets these machines to rural women all over India.

• Affordable pads enable many more women to earn their livelihood during menstruation.

•  Inspired many other entrepreneurs to enter this area

MENSTRUAL AWARENESS IN INDIA

• Discussion on menstruation still a taboo in India

• Widely praised as a key step in changing women's lives in India

• Awareness in developing nations, where only 10% of rural women use pads.

• Girls will drop out of school around puberty

CONCLUSION• Not running after money

• Installed in 23 Indian states, 6 other countries

• Sustaining against MNC

• Lectured at IIT Mumbai, IIM Ahmedabad[ and at Harvard

• Award from President for ‘National Innovation’

• Dream to make india ‘100% Sanitary Pad using Country’ in his life time