The document summarizes the story of A Muruganantham, a school dropout from rural India who designed an inexpensive machine to produce sanitary napkins in order to make menstrual hygiene more affordable and accessible for women in rural areas. His machine is now installed in 250 locations across 18 Indian states. He does not view his work as a business but rather as a social cause, and has received national recognition for his innovation including the National Innovation Foundation's grassroots innovation award.
The Learning Social Entrepreneurship through TechnologyDr.Nasir Ahmad
The purpose of the study was to analyze the learning method of social entrepreneurship adopted through a movie Padman. Numerous stakeholders such as family, community, social activists, entrepreneurs and policy makers were the target audience. The movie narrated the story a poor family residing in rural area and presented their social, cultural and financial problems where a social constraint was a cause of health risk to women. The problem was social in nature. It was converted in an opportunity and the remedy was found through an entrepreneurial venture which later served for the economic well being of the rural women. Based on the thematic analysis of the movie, themes were derived and discussed. Themes, discussion and conclusion are worth value to understand how social problem can be used as an entrepreneurial opportunity for economic and social development of masses at any part of the developing world including Pakistan.
The Learning Social Entrepreneurship through TechnologyDr.Nasir Ahmad
The purpose of the study was to analyze the learning method of social entrepreneurship adopted through a movie Padman. Numerous stakeholders such as family, community, social activists, entrepreneurs and policy makers were the target audience. The movie narrated the story a poor family residing in rural area and presented their social, cultural and financial problems where a social constraint was a cause of health risk to women. The problem was social in nature. It was converted in an opportunity and the remedy was found through an entrepreneurial venture which later served for the economic well being of the rural women. Based on the thematic analysis of the movie, themes were derived and discussed. Themes, discussion and conclusion are worth value to understand how social problem can be used as an entrepreneurial opportunity for economic and social development of masses at any part of the developing world including Pakistan.
Jalna is synonymous with Mahyco and Mahyco with Shri
Badrinarayan Barwale. He is known as the Father of the
Indian Seed Industry for blazing a trail in the field of agriculture.
His mega empire of Mahyco is built upon his threefold principle of precise situational awareness, readiness to work hard, and the constant pursuit of innovation. It
is an exceptional project worthy of study and also a matter of pride for the residents of Jalna.
This is the amazing story of Badrinarayanji and Mahyco’s
journey.
Vinodrai Engineers introduces Bi-Axial Rotolining Machines for Substituting exotic metals by innovative low-cost high-performance Rotolined Pipes, Process and Storage Vessels.
Jalna is synonymous with Mahyco and Mahyco with Shri
Badrinarayan Barwale. He is known as the Father of the
Indian Seed Industry for blazing a trail in the field of agriculture.
His mega empire of Mahyco is built upon his threefold principle of precise situational awareness, readiness to work hard, and the constant pursuit of innovation. It
is an exceptional project worthy of study and also a matter of pride for the residents of Jalna.
This is the amazing story of Badrinarayanji and Mahyco’s
journey.
Vinodrai Engineers introduces Bi-Axial Rotolining Machines for Substituting exotic metals by innovative low-cost high-performance Rotolined Pipes, Process and Storage Vessels.
Mr Sanjay Trikariya, A Jalna Icon. He is dedicated promoter of Science with his innovative creation of " My Small Experimental Lab" "माज़ी छोटुशी प्रयोगशाला".
Inspiring profile of few entrepreneurs from Jalna.
Come, go through the pages of this book and take your first step towards unlimited success. While you work hard towards realizing your dreams, don’t forget to pray every morning to the Almighty - “ God, help me to remember that nothing is going to happen today which you and I together cannot handle.” God Bless You ! May you become another chapter in this book in the years to come.
‘Chak De Jalna’…!
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
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SAP heatmap example with demo
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
How a school dropout empowers women
1. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
How a school dropout empowers rural women- by Shobha
Warrier in Coimbtore, rediff.com
His innovation to churn out low-cost
sanitary napkins is a double boon to
poor women of rural India: they can
lead a hygienic lifestyle and it helps
them earn a living too!
Forty-seven-year-old A
Muruganantham does not like to call
himself a businessman. The company he
has started, Jayashree Industries,
supplies machines and raw material for
making sanitary napkins. The difference
is that his machines go only to poor
women in the rural areas.
There are already 250 machines installed in 18 states in India.
Last year, President Pratibha Patil presented the National Innovation Foundation's 'Fifth
National Grassroots Technological Innovations and Traditional Knowledge Award' to
him in New Delhi.
His machine was chosen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be deployed in
Africa. Though a school dropout, the success of his innovation has enabled him to go to
IIM-Ahmedabad as a visiting professor and talk about his work. He was one of the
speakers at the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) conference too.
He spoke to rediff.com on his innovation and future plans.
Tough childhood days
My father was a handloom weaver and my mother, a farm labourer. There was no
question of me dreaming about being an entrepreneur.
But my mind was always active with ideas and I wanted to be an inventor.
When my father died in an accident, the financial condition of my family worsened. My
mother's meagre earnings -- Rs 7 daily -- was all we had for food and schooling.
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
2. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
I was forced to drop out of school when I was in the 10th standard. I stared working in
workshops as a helper. I preferred workshops because I was always fascinated by
machines. I earned Rs 2 a week!
Life went on like that, and I didn't even know how I grew up.
How sanitary napkins became an obsession in his life
One day I saw my wife walk past me hiding something. I enquired what was it. . . but she
evaded me, saying it was none of my business.
When I insisted I found she was carrying a piece of cloth that was dirtier than the rag I
used in the workshop. I was horrified to learn that she would use it for personal hygiene
during her menstrual cycle. Here was a woman who had studied up to Plus 2 (Class 12)
and was behaving like an illiterate woman!
She told me she was aware of sanitary
napkins, but if all the adult women in the
house used them then they would have no
money to buy food.
I had no idea that they were so expensive. As
a matter of fact I had absolutely no idea about
the whole issue -- what they looked like, why
women need them -- nothing.
I went to a store and bought a packet. I found
10gm cotton in each napkin. It should not
have cost more than 10 paise, but was actually
selling for Rs 3.
I wondered why I could not make it affordable for poor women, like my wife and sisters.
I bought a good piece of cotton cloth and cotton, made a very simple napkin and asked
my wife to be a volunteer. Unfortunately, all three -- my wife and my two sisters --
refused.
I tried an experiment by filling a football bladder with animal blood that I collected from
a butcher's shop. It proved completely useless.
I then went to the Medical College which was around 28 kms away from my village, and
requested some students to be my volunteers, and they agreed. But their feedback was
negative. They were not satisfied with my product.
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
3. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
I was so obsessed, the women folk of my house thought I had gone mad and become a
pervert, and they left the house calling me, 'mental' and 'psycho'!
Those were the first accolades I got! But I was unperturbed. I was only obsessed with the
thought about why my napkins didn't work.
Mystery solved; it's not cotton!
In the meantime, I had sent the branded napkins
to various labs to test what was inside, and the
verdict was: cellulose.
I was told that the cellulose used in the napkins
would be available in the United States.
I took the help of a college professor to draft a
letter to the manufacturer to see the sample
material. As you know, I, a school dropout,
didn't know enough English and couldn't draft a
formal letter.
What came to me from the US was a small
parcel with ten cardboard sheets. I was puzzled.
Only after ten days, when I tore open one sheet that I realised that fibre from pine wood
was what was inside, and that was what was used in sanitary napkins.
I also found out that you needed a machine to make cellulose out of wood fibre. Cotton
absorbs fluid but does not retain it while cellulose, both, absorbs and retains it.
Once I learnt the mystery behind the napkins, I searched for the machine. To my horror, I
found it cost Rs 4.5 crore (Rs 45 million).
Machine to produce sanitary napkins designed
That was when I decided to design one. It took me around two years to design a machine
that could process cellulose and make sanitary napkins. It was by trial-and-error that I
reached the final product in 2005.
But I never looked at what I did as a business model because I knew I would never be
able to compete with the multi-national giants.
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
4. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
I gave the material and machine to the women in my house so that they could have
cheaper napkins to use. There was enough raw material for five years. But after two
months, when they asked me for more
raw material, I was shocked.
They told me they sold the napkins to
the women in the neighbourhood, that
too not as packets but as single ones.
97% of rural women do not use sanitary
napkins
Let me quote you some statistics. As per
a government study, only 7 per cent of
India's female population uses napkins
and that includes urban women too.
In rural areas, only 3 per cent use. That means 97 per cent of rural women do not use
napkins. Why do they not use it? Because of two reasons: availability and affordability.
Then I hit upon an idea.
Why not give the machine to rural women so that they could make cheaper napkins? The
result would be both easier availability and affordability.
Award from IIT- Madras
In 2006, when I approached
the Indian Institute of
Technology-Madras to
evaluate my machine, I was
told to send in all the details.
I did not know that they had
included my innovation in
the competition that was held
at that time on Best
Innovation for the betterment
of society. My machine was
chosen as the best innovation
from 689 entries.
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
5. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
The news appeared in all the newspapers and local TV. Soon I started getting orders for
the machine but I had no plan to sell it for commercial purposes. I know what suffering is
and I wanted in some way or the other to be useful to the society.
Machines only to poor rural women
I decided to supply my machine only through DRDO or a self-help group to the poor
women in rural areas. I have sold 250 machines till now, and they are spread all over
India, in the rural areas of 18 states.
All the machines are operated only by the poorest women in the villages. My job does not
end with supplying the machine; I myself go and train them to operate the machine.
I don't supply it to any government as no government is interested in the betterment of
people.
In the next one-and-a-half years, I want to
supply 20,000 machines. I started selling
them at Rs 47,000 but now, the price has
gone up to Rs 80,000, and that included 12.5
per cent tax.
To set up a machine with raw material, it
would cost Rs 150,000. In most places, the
SHGs arrange for bank loans.
Unlike the MNCs who make napkins in one
place and transport to various areas, these
women make napkins and sell in that area alone. From each machine, you can make
1,000 pieces a day and a minimum of 25,000 pieces a month.
The Union government is now talking about supplying free napkins to women by
spending Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion).
With the same amount, we can create 100,000 units across India and each unit can have
10 women working in it. This way, we create employment for a million women.
Think of those poor women in Bihar, the beedi workers of Sivakasi and many such
places. I am interested only in employment generation and women moving from
unhygienic rags to using napkins. We also teach the women hygiene and ways to dispose
of the napkins.
Recognition from MIT, IIM-A
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
6. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US bought my machine for African
countries. The condition of African women is no different from ours.
I am happy that the world's premier institute
found my innovation worth recommending. I
am also getting enquiries from Kenya,
Ethiopia, and Nigeria. This will be useful to
women residing in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri
Lanka too.
Being a non-business person, I am going to
transfer the technology which I have patented
to the African countries as I have no plans to
sell my machines there.
I was invited to speak at the TiE (The Indus
Entrepreneurs) meet in Mumbai in 2009. I
asked the elite crowd, "When a school
dropout from a small place in Coimbatore can
think of making his innovation useful to
society, why don't you educated people think on these lines?"
The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, and other business schools and
engineering colleges, invited me as a guest professor.
I ask them, "Are you trying to survive in this world by accepting a job that offers you
crores of rupees or are you trying to achieve something?"
I am proud to say that quite a few were
disturbed by my question.
I believe that the quality of your work is
more important than money. Money has to
be a by-product, not the aim.
Award from the President of India
Last year, President Pratibha Patil
presented the National Innovation
Foundation's 'Fifth National Grassroots
Technological Innovations and Traditional Knowledge Awards' to me.
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.
7. Vinodrai Engineers Pvt. Ltd.,
12 Km. Stone, Jalna-Aurangabad Road,
Village Dawalwadi, District : Jalna
Jalna – 431 203 ( India )
Ph: +91-2482-262000 Fax: +91-2482-262400
Web: vinodrai.com , E-Mail : vinodraieng@rediffmail.com
I must say I never aimed for any award; they are just by-products. Awards help me take
my product to the targetted audience.
I am not a businessman. I also don't like to say that I am a social entrepreneur though
many use that word to describe me. I am not serving society; I do what I like and what I
enjoy doing. I only want to be a job provider.
The biggest award I got was from a woman from Uttaranchal who told me, "Bhaiyya, I
admitted my daughter in a school!"
A woman from such a far-off place called me bhaiyya, her brother. She could put her
daughter in school only because of the money she made by selling napkins. Her words
were the biggest award I have ever won!
Pursuing excellence in rotational moulding.