Life changed for the
people of Barapitha, a tribal hamlet on the outskirts of the city, on
Friday Oct 02,2015 as it became the first village in Odisha to have solar lights in
each of its 61 households.
With 61 houses of
the tribal village near Deras on the city outskirts, the small
settlement became the first in the state to use 100 % solar power
for household purposes and street lighting
Each
household in the village has been provided with two solar home lighting
systems with the facility to charge mobile phones and other devices.
Besides, the village roads and schools and the community centre have been connected with solar energy.
The LED TV in the community centre now runs on solar powe
The
residents watched the India-South Africa T20 match at Dharmshala
uninterrupted on their TV sets though telecast in the city itself was
repeatedly disturbed due to power cuts.
TK
Chand, chairman and managing director of blue chip public sector
company, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALC), inaugurated the
solar project at the village in the presence of Joydeep Nayak, Inspector
General of Police (SC and ST Protection Cell) and Khurda district
collector Niranjan Sahu.
Today i.e on 4th Oct,2015 morning when I was reading the morning daily newspaper "Sambad" I just glanced through a news as "Odisha's first 100% Solar Village" near to Bhubaneswar city. So , i read this news and gone through the current news on this topic in daily english and oriya language.
ReplyDeleteAnd at 3 P.M I have started journey to this village in my car with my two friends and this village is just 28 Km from BBSR adjacent to Deras Dam and Chandaka Elephant Sanctuary.
There I Meet Mr. Narayan Hisa, Ward Member of this village and discussed about this solar project. He has told me that only for Joydeep Sir( Mr. Joydeep Nayak, IPS) we are able to get the solar energy for which our village road and all the houses in our village lighting.Thanks to Joydeep sir for his commendable work although this project does not come under his scope of work.Thanks to the NALCO CMD and other authorities for their CSR programme.NALCO is committed to intensify its CSR programmes in different parts of this state without any break.I am also working on creation of awareness programmes about using solar power for sustainable development in our state by visiting different remote villages and I am hopeful organisations like NALCO will come up in numbers to help our village people to come out of darkness and Kerosine fume.
Regards.Thanking You.
PRAMOD MALLIK
United Renewable Energy Associates,
A Renewable Energy Enterpreneur.
Bhubaneswar. Ph:9124000056.