Arunachalam Muruganantham- The Real Pad Man

The seeds were sown in 1998 when he saw his wife using old rags as sanitary pads during menstruation. A newly married couple, he wanted to impress his wife and hence, asked her to use sanitary pads instead of the old clothes. However, she refused as it was too expensive. Hence, despite failing terribly, he used different materials to make a prototype for sanitary pads every month. He experimented them on his wife, but the feedback would require a month’s time. His sisters refused to use it. He, then, approached some female medical students nearby to try his product, but they were too shy and could not him an exact feedback. Hence, he decided to wear the pad himself.
In a society, where imported machines would cost around INR 35 million, Muruganantham’s machine costed INR 65,000. Hence, women could buy this machine and produce their own sanitary pads, thereby creating jobs in India. This revolution sells 1,300 machines to 27 states as well as developing countries all over the world. Today, he runs Jayashree Industries, with 2003 units across India, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The extraordinary venture of Muruganantham’s journey is highlighted in the upcoming film PadMan, starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor.
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