Urja
Foundation & Dr.Harivansh Rai Bachchan Memorial Trust Commission
the lighting up of Unelectrified homes across rural India with Solar
Power System
With
The noble intention to serve our country men, who are deprived of
electricity, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan Memorial Trust and Urja
Foundation have commissioned the rural electrification initiative which
was announced on Shri Amitabh Bachchanji’s birthday – 11th October 2013.
In
December 2012, over 250 million Indian citizens had no access to
electricity and over 1/3rd of India’s rural population lacked
electritcity, as did 6% of the urban population.
The
rural initiative has commenced to provide solar powered lights to
around 3000 homes all across India ,the objective is to provide feasible
and sustainable renewable energy solutions for inclusive growth.The
initiative is supported by the United Nations Information Centre for
India and Bhutan (UNIC).
The
initiative has also been supported by Life Insurance Corporation of
India (LIC) and has Blue Dart as the official supply partner ensuring
efficiency in logistics by delivering the solar home lighting systems
across rural India.
The solar home lighting systems(SHS) will be provided free of cost to all identified beneficiaries.
Catering to the basic
necessity of lighting the Solar Home Lighting System (SHS) will power 2
lights, 1 portable light and mobile charger.
With the growing
energy needs of our country renewable energy resources will play an
important role in the future. The solar home light system installed will
be a step ahead to providing the basic necessity of clean and green
energy.
-Mr Parag Shukal- Founder-URJA Foundation
-Mr Niraj Aggrawal- Executive Directot-communication-LIC
Ms-Kiran Mehra-Kerpelmann-United Nations Centre of Information for India And Bhutan- UNIC
-Mr Amitabh Bachchan-
Mr And Mrs Tushar Gandhi- Mahatma Gandhi Foundation- Trustee
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