this is a small story about a person who he become a entrepreneur.

1. Menstrual Man
By Group-3
Harini
Anzir A.M
Lata yadav
Siddharth maurya

2. INTRODUCTION
• 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

3. • 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.

4. 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

5. • 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.

6. • 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9.  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

10.  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.

11. • Affordable pads enable many more women to earn their
livelihood during menstruation.
• Inspired many other entrepreneurs to enter this area

12. 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

13. 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