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When D.R. Mehta broke his leg in a car accident, he was faced with the very real possibility of amputation. That experience brought him in contact with the amputee community in India, whose numbers include millions of rural poor who cannot afford prosthetic limbs. In this conversation, Jennifer Roberts, associate editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, interviews D.R. Mehta about the creation in 1975 of a non-governmental agency in India dedicated to serving the disabled, particularly those without financial resources.
Mehta discusses how the organization's prosthetic limb, the Jaipur Foot, is being distributed for free to millions of people below the poverty line in 16 countries, allowing them to join the ranks of the mobile and become productive citizens. Jaipur Foot won the 2007 ScanDisk Equality Award, administered by the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif.
D.R. Mehta is founder and chief patron of Jaipur Foot. He is also a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. A graduate of arts and law from Rajasthan University, he studied at the Royal Institute of Public Administration, London, and the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1961 and held numerous important positions initially in the government of Rajasthan and later in the government of India.
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This program is from our Tech Museum Awards series.
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