Saturday, May 30, 2009

Solar Energy reaches to border villages of Arunachal Pradesh



5000 HOUSES ILLUMINATED BY SOLAR ENERGY 
 
5000 houses in border villages in the country have been provided solar home lighting system and another 800 houses will have this facility within one month. This is result of efforts by Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency and Department of Hydro Power Development. It has been done under the implementation of PM’s Special Package on illumination/electrification of all Border villages through solar and micro hydel systems. With a view to create large scale awareness and publicity about uses and benefits of renewable energy like solar, wind, biomass and hydro, Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has constituted District Advisory Committee’s (DACs) under the Chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner and members from various state government departments, NGO’s. 560 DACs have been constituted and are functional in the country. 

A one day orientation cum training programme of DAC members of Arunachal Pradesh was organized today at Itanagar by Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency. Deputy Commissioners of West Kameng, Tirap, Dibang Valley, Upper Subansiri, ADCs of East Siang and West Siang and 60 other members of DACs attended the programme. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. N.P. Singh, Advisor, MNRE mentioned that about 15000 MW grid power from renewable energy which is about 9% of the total grid power in the country has been installed. Shri Marki Loya, Director, Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency gave presentation on various renewable energy schemes under implementation of the state and requested more and more participation of DAC members. During interaction sessions, DCs presented the views and highlighted the benefits of renewable energy and existence of DACs.

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