Can solar power match nuclear energy? While solar energy may be nothing but nuclear energy produced by sun rays, the earthen reality is that it's too expensive yet to match coal-based or nuclear power . NGO Greenpeace however, feels solar power must get its due. As a step towards taking the argument to the powers-that-be, it has selected Jalka village in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha, visited last year by Rahul Gandhi to meet Kalavati, widow of a farmer who had committed suicide. Solar panels were set up at two schools to power 10 fans and two computers. Reason: Rahul had cited lack of electricity in her hut to buttress the Indo-US nuclear deal in his Parliament speech on the no-trust motion against UPA government. "We are here to challenge the political class to think beyond the tested and failed attempts at rural electrifications. The time has come to unleash an energy revolution and look at every citizen as an empowered producer of electricity and not just a passive beneficiary," said Greenpeace campaigner Maitree Dasgupta. "Our village was made famous in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi, but uninterrupted electricity has remained a distant dream. We saw how easily this solar panel was set up in just three days. Rahul Gandhi will be in Wardha tomorrow. I would like to invite him to our village to see this," said Sarpanch Anusuabai Kumbhre. "Now my children have a future," said Kalavati, whose two daughters and two sons are among the 100 children studying in this school. Later, villagers signed on the poster prepared by schoolchildren demanding complete solar energy in the village. "There are a million Kalavatis waiting for power. This is an opportunity to provide them reliable and clean power by building a new and pro-poor energy infrastructure. "We need to devolve policy making in the power sector by giving people in India the chance to choose their own destinies. "This requires a bold political vision to usher in an energy revolution," said Greenpeace activist Siddharth Pathak. Jalka has already been adopted by sanitation NGO Sulabh International with a rural reconstruction agenda that aims at creating vocational training and sanitation facilities, water and soil conservation work and training in low-cost agriculture. They have already given Rs 61akh to Kalavati from the assured fixed den posit aid of Rs 301akh. Gren upset with Muttemwar Greenpeace is upset with New and Renewable Energy Minister Vilas Muttemwar for not attending the programme.