Real Headline: “Sanitary napkin-making machine brings him glory”

From ExpressBuzz here is a heart warming story of a welder who’s wife uses filthy rags from the trash to absorb her menses. And the literal rags to better rags story of boy makes good.

When exactly did he conceive the idea of designing a sanitary napkin making machine? “It was after my marriage in 1998 when I found my wife using a cloth dirtier than the waste used at workshops during her periods. Since the branded napkins of two multi-national companies were so costly, I conducted extensive research on an indigenous machine for making sanitary napkins,” he reveals.

His four-year study culminated in the creation of a low-cost machine. Initially, he gave the sanitary napkins manufactured on that to a few students of a local college but they did not give him their feedback. Dejected, he dumped the products at his house and started to concentrate on his workshop. However, his wife without telling him cleared the stock. She sold it to womenfolk around their house on instalment basis. “The success of that experiment inspired me to re-start work on making the machines. My semi-automatic machine needs just single phase power and is priced at Rs 65,000 whereas the machines manufactured by MNCs costs around Rs 3.50 crore. Over 100 machines have been delivered which are now functioning in 14 States,” he says with obvious pride.