Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Power tariff hike under consideration. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Monday reiterated the Government resolve to provide quality power and plans electrification of new areas.
The Centre has hailed the Arunachal Pradesh Government for effective implementation of the Border Village Illumination Programme under the Prime Minister
Congress general secretary, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday night, stressed the significance of alternative energy sources for comprehensive prosperity even in interior regions. He was addressing a congregation of Self-Help Group (SHG) members at a village in Unchahar of Rae Barei dstrict. The day after, on Wednesday, Rahul inaugurated the Rajeev …
This nondescript village tucked in a corner of the border district of Amritsar got the country’s first commercial 2 MW solar power plant on Tuesday. The plant was inaugurated by Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah. Set up by American company Azure Power in IPP mode, it …
The Department of Science and Technology of the Central government, under the Integrated Rural Energy Planning Programme (IREP), has taken over the maintenance of nearly 1,000 micro hydel projects abandoned across the state. Around 900 of these are totally defunct. The projects once commissioned will provide nearly 5,000 MW of …
German Ambassador to Bangladesh Holger Michael yesterday said Germany will give Bangladesh 6.5 million euros in grant for installing three lakh solar home systems in the rural areas by 2012. In a meeting with the state minister at his office, the German envoy also mentioned another 8.6 million euros for …
The rural population in India does not have access to reliable energy. India has millions of tonnes of unused and available biomass waste. This loose biomass is currently treated as a waste with no economic value. It is often burnt inefficiently in open fields, causing air pollution. However this 'waste' …
ITANAGAR, Nov 24: Though the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vaidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was started early in the State, the actual progress of work at the ground is almost zero and the scheme is yet to start in many areas. In a bid to have a grip on the deplorable situation, …
The Centre has agreed to sanction solar home lighting systems to below poverty line (BPL) households in 5,000 remote and inaccessible villages of Assam not connected by conventional power grid. Most of these villages are located in char (riverine) areas. This was assured by the Union Minister for New and …
Rural houses in North East, where powerlines have not yet reached, would soon be illuminated with specially designed solar lanterns. Noting that a lot of
In developing countries, biomass is used as a primary source of energy for cooking and water heating. Use of the biomass in traditional cook stoves creates serious health problems to rural women and children. Biomass gasification appears to have a significant potential for domestic cooking applications. However, due to some …
A survey has been carried out in a cluster of four villages in Amaniganj Block of Faizabad District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. The survey is based on primary and secondary data collected from household and village level questionnaires. The present energy consumption in cooking, lighting, other domestic activities, …
JAIPUR: The three public sector power distribution companies in Rajasthan have decided to supply electricity for six to seven hours a day to farmers from October 1 for sowing of rabi crops. Besides, domestic power will be supplied to the rural areas throughout the night. State Energy Minister Jitendra Singh …
Ambedkar villages will be lit up with sodium lights as Chief Minister Mayawati has asked the officials concerned to install 10,000 sodium bulbs in these villages besides setting up 2,000 Ambedkar Community centres in the villages. The Chief Minister has also asked the officials to implement government schemes in the …
The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Seeking to expand the reach of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to remote areas in the country, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has laid down a firm road map for the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) that would entail the release of 5.5 crore LPG connections by …
There is finally light at the end of the road for tribal hamlets in Mumbai. The municipal corporation has started making use of solar-run streetlights to illuminate arterial roads and lanes of these hamlets. Even as electricity keeps the urban pockets in most parts of the city lit for 234 …
