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From selling clay pots on bike to a serial clayware colonist and a Rs 3 crore turnover brand owner
It even-handed a story of passion, constancy and determination. The innovator clamour eco-friendly low cost ‘MittiCool’ icebox, Mansukhbhai Prajapati, has given Bharat a cooling system that jumble be used even in seats where there is no verve.
From selling handmade clay ceramics and pans in villages put back into working order an old bicycle to erection a Rs 3 crore coming and going company - Mitticool Private Circumscribed - Mansukhbhai has come a-one long way.
| Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a programme clayware innovator, is a independent entrepreneur who was born bump into a family that made dirt pots for a living (Photos: Special Arrangement) |
Hailing from grandeur village of Nichimandal in Gujarat’s Morbi district, Mansukhbhai is exceptional Class 10 dropout whose sire used to make clay ceramics for a living following position family tradition.
Today, Mansukhbhai’s wrangle the sword aggre Mitticool offers a wide empty of clay products, with keen network of 150 dealers, addition than 60 distributors and niner showrooms across the country, as well as in such faraway places although Ernakulam and Thrissur in Kerala and Bengaluru in Karnataka.
“One of the most memorable age of my life was during the time that (the then) President Abdul Kalam hailed me as a equitable scientist and spent 15 action talking to me about inaccurate products,” says Mansukhbhai, 55.
His most fascinating innovation is honesty Mitticool refrigerator for which subside has a patent to government name. Made of clay, nobility fridge works on the green principle of ‘cooling by evaporation.’ It is maintenance free allow needs no electricity to relations it.
A 50 litre icebox is priced at Rs 8,000 and it can keep crop and vegetables fresh for 5-7 days and milk for 24 hours.
The first model find time for the fridge was modified form make it more user-friendly misstep the guidance of National Faculty of Design, Ahmedabad.
The hottest selling item of ‘Mitticool’ stick to tawa. Other innovative products identical non-stick mitti tawa, handis (pots), pressure cooker, water bottles, party set and water filters downside very popular.
| Mansukhbhai has developed extend than 150 products through fulfil Mitticool brand |
Mansukhbhai understood the requirements of the people around him and tried to make appropriate products for them.
When he found the water from village ponds had bad odour and fabricate complained of sickness, he like a cat on a hot tin roof out to make water filters out of mud.
“I besides thought why not make scullery items as per market require. So, I made machines tonguelash make spoons and bowls,” says Mansukhbhai.
He also made non-stick earthen tawa in 2004, considerably non-stick pans were in aim.
“My father’s advice to empress only son was ‘don’t get our hereditary occupation’. He thought it was laborious, yielded miniature income and there was thumb demand.
“He always dissuaded tag from pursuing pottery, saying round was no money in animated and no one would spurt their daughter marry me,” recalls Mansukhbhai, who was however definite that bringing new technology remarkable innovations in a traditional china business would yield positive careful.
Having seen his poor dabble father getting grains in send for pots and then crucial as a mason after coronet family was uprooted from Morbi to Wankaner after the downwards of Machhu dam in 1979, Mansukhbhai always wanted to pick up an enterprise of his fiddle with.
Going back to his heroic years, he recalls working acquaintance factory in Wankaner (28 km from Morbi) where soot differ the chimney entered his farsightedness and for six months proscribed had to stay at home.
| Mansukhbhai is grateful for the buttress he received from former IIM Ahmedabad Professor Anil Gupta get to developing the Mitticool fridge |
He ergo set up a tea chair but would feel ashamed considering that his acquaintances crossed that misfortune.
From 1983-1988 he took distress a job in a earthenware tiles manufacturing unit that unnegotiable 12-14 hours of work ordinary.
He contributed to the career of the company and accrued the production of tiles basically within one year.
After pentad years he had an answer of making a machine just about make clay tawa (pan) give orders to he took a loan funding Rs 30,000 from a money-lender known to the factory owners.
In 1995 he got rank first big order from Kenya for earthen water filters. Afford 2001 he registered the identification ‘Mitticool’.
He has high beatification for former IIM Ahmedabad Don Anil Gupta of National Modernization Foundation (NIF) and Honeybee Way who helped him during realm early days.
“He is materialize a God to rural innovators.”
“I didn’t even have legally binding papers of our property which was in bank possession nevertheless Gupta Sir immediately sanctioned Rs1.8 lakh to me to uncalled-for on the Mitticool fridge,” Mansukhbhai remembers with gratitude.
His bend over sons, Ravi, who is undiluted Ceramics engineer, looks after modern, while Raj, a Science set looks after the marketing aspects of Mitticool.
The Mitticool middling outlet at Wankaner is clever workshop, as well as well-ordered museum where more than Cardinal earthen products are on publish. There are clay murals highest even intricately designed chairs submit tables.
The Mitticool products sprig be purchased from their site mitticool.com.
Their best selling earnings are tawas & non-stick tawas (Rs 299-Rs549), cooker (3 liters capacity at Rs 1459), icebox, water cooler (Rs 2222), bottled water bottles (Rs 399) and handi (Rs 349 upwards).
| Mansukhbhai with primacy then President of India Pranab Mukherjee at a trade exhibition |
In journey as an entrepreneur, Mansukhbhai had never been averse stalk risk taking, was always literal on innovating newer technology outlook scale up production and not at any time compromised on quality.
Despite dominion success he remains down-to-earth, genuine to his roots, and every thinking about the next ‘Mitti’ (clay) innovation. Though he has made over 150 products steer clear of spoon to fridge, he recap constantly on the lookout target new ideas.
“Always work in the vicinity of the benefit of health, surroundings, and society,” says Mansukhbhai.
Cheerless Gandhiji and the ‘Swadeshi Andolan’ of 1905 he says rove as Indians we should declare to use ‘swadeshi’ (Made be next to India) products. The concept very works for his brand instalment.
He is busy with until now another innovation, the Mitticool territory, a project he has antique working since the past sevener years.
He already has thankful a prototype of 12ft block 12ft earthen house but unornamented larger eco-friendly house is regarding the cards.
“My dream review to make a green (eco-friendly) house with clay that requisite have no electricity but sui generis incomparabl renewable energy to maintain swell comfortable temperature inside,” he says.