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 arunachalam muruganantham inventor and social entrepreneur jayaashree industries
arunachalam muruganantham

arunachalam muruganantham -lrb- born 1962 -rrb- is a social entrepreneur from coimbatore in tamil nadu , india .
he is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine and has innovated grass-roots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural india .
his mini-machines , which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads , have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of india .
he is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations .
in 2014 , time magazine placed him in its list of `` 100 most influential people in the world '' .
