To harness renewable energy, four government schools in East Delhi have installed a new water pumping system that uses solar energy and developed jointly by power distribution company BYPL and IIT-

The State government will install solar panels along the irrigation canals to generate power for lifting water. The project will be implemented in Yadgir, Raichur and Bijapur districts in the first phase.

Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai said here on Wednesday that it had been planned to install 10,000 solar panels along the one lakh-kilometre length of irrigation canals.

KOLKATA, 8 AUG: After global warming took its toll on at least 100 people this summer, there are plans for a “green” pandal in Kalikapur off EM Bypass.

UNNAO: Here is an apt example of government setting up infrastructure, which is eventually rendered as useless.

Punjab government has recommended Rs 300 million allocations during financial year 2012-13 for installation of solar water pumps on farmer fields and research on solar power system.

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday stated that the Centre is planning to set up 10,000 solar-based water systems in 78 districts, which are affected by Maoist violence.

The plan is in a bid to solve the drinking water woes of people in the Left-Wing Effected (LWE) districts, which are administered through Integrated Action Plan (IAP).

For a change, farmers in Bihar may well look up to the Sun now than cloud.

Says agriculture has been affected severely because of the imposition of power cut. The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has called for the use of solar-powered farm pump sets to tide over the problem of power shortage in rural areas.

Stating that agriculture had been affected severely because of the imposition of power cut, the party, in its document on agriculture, stressed the need for tapping solar energy. Steps should be taken for the distribution of solar powered-farm pump sets at concessional rates.

Banks have gradually increased investments in clean and renewable-energy technology, which was beyond conventional banking a few years ago.

VELLORE/ THIRUVANNAMALAI: The unscheduled power cuts prevailing across the state have led to the convergence of a focused demand for the early commissioning of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (