The Power and Energy Ministry has launched 2225 electrification projects at a cost of Rs. 5025 million to provide electricity to 15 percent of the population who are without this basic facility within the next three years.

All remaining power projects will be completed by 2012 and this will cost an additional sum of Rs. 1650 million, Ceylon Electricity Board stated.

Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy has implemented a speedy program to provide electricity to 25 villages in the Northern Province that have no power supply yet.

According to the Minister of Power and Energy, W.D.J. Senaviratne, only the cities in the Northern Province have received power supply until now.

The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (Established 1993) ensures that the state giants use 5 per cent of renewable energy. From a solar housing programme to the country's first rice husk fuel power plant,it is a pioneer in the promotion of renewable energy.

From solar lanterns to solar technology-run ATMs, from traffic and streetlights to railway signals, Tata BP Solar (Established 1989) now wants to light up 10 million households across India and generate 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020.

Former deputy chief minister Stephen Marandi today promised that 135 villages in his district would celebrate a brighter Diwali, with electricity and electric bulbs reaching every household in their area by the time of the festival.

Earlier, the leader had initiated measures to provide electricity to consumers in his constituency, Dumka, from where he was elected as an MLA for 25 years.

Democracy," Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, "is the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all."

The Sindh government will pay about Rs 1327.081 million to Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and Hyderabad Electric Supply Corporation (Hesco) to ensure provision of electricity to villages in these two districts, it is learnt.

The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put in place about a year ago. But the electricity line never came to Bagraha.

Under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme, electricity will be provided to 37,147 families in 1,033 villages, said District-in-Charge Minister K S Eshwarappa.

District-in-Charge Minister K S Eshwarappa inaugurating Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme programme organised by MESCOM on Tuesday. DH photo