JAIPUR ARTIFICIAL LIMBS

Social Entrepreneurship
 Social Entrepreneurship is an emerging field that offers
opportunity to young professionals to create
societal/economic value on a sustainable basis
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 A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social
problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to
organize, create, and manage a venture to make social
change.
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 In a country like India, where barely 6-7% of the
economically active work-force is in the 'organized
sector‘.
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 There is a dire need to divert the managerial talent to

develop ventures which can add/create value to the
rest of the 'informal sector‘
About the Product
 The Jaipur leg also known as Jaipur Footis a
rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with
below-knee amputations produced under
guidance of Dr. P. K . Sethi, Masterji Ram
Chander in 1969 for victims of landmine
explosions.
 Designed in, and named for Jaipur, the
prosthetic leg was designed
 To be inexpensive,
 Quick to fit and manufacture,
 To be water-resistant
 It costs approximately U.S. $40,and probably
the cheapest prosthetic limb in the world.
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The inventors
 Pramod Karan Sethi was an orthopedic
surgeon. With Ram Chandra Sharma, he
co-invented the "Jaipur foot, an
inexpensive and flexible artificial foot, in
1969.
 Ram Chandra Sharma, an illiterate
craftsman, is the co-inventor of the foot.
The original idea of the Jaipur foot is
supposed to have come to him
serendipitiously while he was riding a
bicycle and had a flat tire
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The need
 Over ten million people suffer from loco-motor disability in India.
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 The problem of loco-motor disability in terms of sheer numbers is
massive.
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 In 1975 or earlier there were hardly one or two institutions in India,
fitting artificial limbs and providing other aids and appliances.
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 Besides, in the earlier years there was a problem of design.The
resultant artificial limbs were very heavy and cumbersome in use.
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 The percentage of rejection of such limbs was very high.
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 Time taken to manufacture a custom made limb was several weeks
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 They were very expensive and beyond the reach of most of the
amputees.
The USP
 The Jaipur Foot has virtually got the same range
of movements which a normal human foot
has.
“It is an all-functional, all-terrain limb”

 Walk /Run
 Squat
 Kneeling
 Crouching
 Sitting cross legged
 Walking also on undulated terrain
 Climbing a tree , Driving an automobile.

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The design
Advantages.
üJaipur Foot is cosmetically also closest to the
human foot with toes
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üIt is really a quick fit limb. A below-knee,
prosthesis can be made in three hours.
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üJaipur Limb is light weight 1.3 Kg. to 2.5 Kgs.

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üLife of Jaipur Foot piece is around 3 years.
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üJaipur Foot is a dual purpose foot.
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üJaipur Foot is water proof