Mansukhbhai Prajapati was called a 'true scientist' by late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The title doesn't come without merit. Every milestone in Mansukhbhai's journey from rags to riches comes with a belief - that each one of us can rise in life if we have the heart to treat even the smallest of ideas with conviction.

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Born in the village Nichimandal of Morbi, Rajkot, Mansukhbhai had always known one craft - that of traditional clay making. A cricket fan at heart, the family trade never caught his interest. However, due to unavoidable circumstances, Mansukhbhai migrated to Wankaner with his family to deal with crunching financial crises.

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After working as a tea-seller, he joined Jagdamba Potteries, a rooftop tile manufacturing facility in 1985 where he earned a wage of Rs 300 per month. But with a zeal to do something different, Mansukhbhai left his job in 1988 and took a loan of Rs 30,000 to start his own earthen plate manufacturing unit.

When the fateful earthquake of 2001 hit Gujarat, Mansukhbhai lost most of his wares. The stock that survived was distributed to the people adversely affected in Kutch. But a moment of limelight in the Sandesh Gujarati Daily that featured one of his broken water filters - captioned 'the broken fridge of poor' - was enough to ignite a fire in Mansukhbhai.

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That moment led Mansukhbhai to begin work on a rural fridge that completely circumvented the use of electricity. After three years of sheer hard work and research, Mansukhbhai finally launched Mitticool in 2005.

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Mitticool is now an ISO certified company that not only makes refrigerators but also other items of daily use that include cookers, water filters, foot plates, and many more. The cost of the clay refrigerator is as low as Rs 3000 so that it's affordable for the poor as well. Running on a simple scientific tenet that evaporation leads to a cooling effect, the fridge comes with water channels that evaporate to cool the contents inside.

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Mitticool has to its credit a horde of achievements and awards. All thanks to one man, whose determination led him to do something different which benefited the society at large.

That is indeed one true scientist.