At the time of Independence, availability of power was confined to a few urban and industrial pockets of Haryana and its villages were engulfed in darkness. However, during the Congress regime in 1970, Haryana became the first state in the country to provide electricity to hundred per cent of its villages.

Almost 3000 systems have been installed through "solar homes technology" in the rural areas of Sindh, electrifying thousands of homes in the province.

Sushil kumar Shinde, Union Power Minister.

The Pakistan Electric Power Company is putting co-ordinated efforts to extend electricity distribution infrastructure to remote areas of the country. Multiple system augmentation and infrastructure improvement programmes are also being executed and enormous human endeavour, technical expertise and financial investments have been concentrated on various developmental projects.

The Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that the government has set a target to electrify 7,000 villages within next five years through solar energy which cannot be electrified through grid. The minister said that Pakistan is facing the same issues in developing and utilising its renewable as many other countries in similar situation.

A GTZ senior energy adviser has suggested the government take necessary measures to create awareness among rural people to use energy saving systems such as solar, biomass, biogas, wind and hydropower.

Renewable energy service providers yesterday urged the government to form a body to implement the renewable energy policy to develop the green energy resources and meet 10 percent of the national demand for power by 2020.

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Energy Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday sought Central allocation of Rs.514 crore for facilitating power supply to 10,294 hamlets across the State by 2012 under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme. The scheme

The World Bank (WB) has approved US$ 89.2 million to support the Nepal government's energy crisis management action plan. The bank's new support is basically an additional financing of the Nepal Power Development Project (NPDP) approved on May 22, 2003.

The Government of Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $160 million loan agreement yesterday for the development of the country