The state of Madhya Pradesh plans to provide solar power to 425 villages by the end of the 2010 financial year, and has plans to generate 200MW of power through solar energy by 2013, suggest reports.
The state is developing a full infrastructure solar park in the village of Ganeshpura, Gujarat, on 300 acres of land.
MUMBAI: Kinetic chairman Arun Firodia, who saw an opportunity at the bottomof-the-pyramid long before the phrase became a catchword and launched the moped Luna, now plans to launch a project that would bring power to villages. The plan entails starting a two micro-electric plants at villages with a population of over 2,000.
Bhopal: The Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran co ltd (MPKVV) has started preparations to supply needed electricity to the farmers for irrigation during the Rabi season. MPKVV is going to take effective measures to make arrangements to supply adequate electricity to the farmers and prevent as much as possible undeclared power-cuts during the Rabi season.
Village Kutkipura in Berasia tahasil of Bhopal district has ushered in a revolution by generating electricity by human waste. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan dedicated to people a 5 kw bio electricity generation plant set up at a cost of about Rs. 22 lakh in this village which would generate electricity by human waste.
Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 05, 2010, 0:59 IST
OREDA to electrify 1000 inaccessible villages this year
Orissa may have the most number of un-electrified villages in the country after Jharkhand but the state is upbeat on meeting the target for electrification of all its villages by December 2011.
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar
