Sewa International started Clean Tech Initiative in 2012. It is a forum of volunteers having special interest in promoting and implementing clean tech energy solutions in remote and inaccessible areas where still the electricity through conventional modes has not reached. The group is known as ‘Clean Tech Initiative’ headed by a three-member executive body. Sewa International has so far executed the projects in Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. Few projects are under progress in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, etc. A specific team works on arranging funds for it. Under the initiative, the organisation has done two most remarkable projects in India whose success stories have motivated and given the surrounding population and other institutes the much needed confidence to adopt renewable energy.
-Swayam Prakash Baral
Krishna Devi Vanvasi Awasiya Vidyalaya is a residential school for Vanvasi girls at Majhgawan in Chitrakoot region of Madhya Pradesh. The school and its hostel is supported by Deendayal Research Institute (DRI). The school has few buildings in the campus which are used as classrooms and hostels with an electricity connection from the grid, which is highly unstable. Power cuts are for more than 12 to 15 hours daily and mainly in the evenings. (July 19, 2015 Page : 20) |
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Illuminating the lives of VanvasisSolar Mini-Grid Project in JharkhandDarmi and Nawadih Villages in Rehala region of Jharkhand consist of 114 households with a population of around 600, mostly depending on farming. Water supply for cultivation has been a big issue. Existing source of power supply is national grid, but the villagers hardly get power for an hour in a day, and that too under very low voltage. People still depend on kerosene, an additional burden to the economy. (July 19, 2015 Page : 21) |
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