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 …
Rahul Gandhi might just have to rewrite his energy security script, with the protagonist of his story choosing to look the renewable way. News is that Kalavati Bandurkar, whose story the MP had so forcefully narrated in the parliament last July for drawing a connect between poverty and nuclear energy, …
The Election Commission (EC) has allowed continuation of subsidy to the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) for supply of free power to farm sector and poor sections of society. The Punjab government had sought the permission of the EC in this respect. The commission has also allowed the charging of …
Nagpur: Greenpeace, an NGO, has set up solar panels at two schools to power 10 fans and two computers at Jalka village in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha, visited last year by Rahul Gandhi to meet Kalavati, the widow of a farmer who had committed suicide.
Nagpur: Less than a year ago, 50-year-old Kalavati Bandukar knew the value of energy but little about the difference between nuclear, thermal, or renewable energy sources. But this widow, whose husband, a farmer, committed suicide in 2005 after being unable to pay his debts, is now learning not only about …
LUCKNOW:When the entire world was switching off lights for an hour as part of a global campaign to save electricity on Saturday, 80-year-old Ram Avtar of Dawoodnagar village, 5 Kms from state capital, was searching for kerosene can to lit an earthen lamp. And, he was not the lone soul. …
The chief minister presents a lifetime achievement award to R.K. Pachauri at the environment meet. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya) Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lauded the high court for banning polluting autorickshaws and old diesel vehicles from the city before goofing up on his green facts at an environment summit on Thursday.
The Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh launched a drive to ensure the farmers that the policy of free electricity to the agriculture sector will continue for another five years. The commitment came in the form of publicity material and flexi banner which were released by the Chief Minister Y S …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Rs.447.41-crore rural electrification project, aimed at benefiting nearly 5.25 lakh below-the-poverty-line households (BPLHH) spread over 27 districts, was launched at Kollumedu village, about 30 km north of Chennai, on Tuesday. In the initial phase, about 54,000 households will be covered by March-end. The project is expected …
This article showcases the successful establishment of cluster level biodiesel resource centres catering to rural energy demands and the creation of livelihood opportunities in over 70 villages in Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. Central to this initiative has been the ongoing experiences with communities who collect and sell seeds of …
With the aid of small island PV systems, a German-based aid foundation is bringing light in the huts of Ethiopia's rural population. The solar energy is also awakening the energy of the people themselves.
RECORDER REPORT ISLAMABAD (January 22 2009): Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) announced to carry out 500 Solar Home Lighting projects in next five years under PPAF-III to overcome the power crisis in deprived areas of the country. As a prototype, the project would lead PPAF for its possible replication in …
In many of the contemporary CDM projects see that community development is simply an afterthought, if it is indeed considered at all. By contrast, the Bagepalli biogas CDM project is an example of a grassroots level project resulting in tangible benefits for the rural community. The project has benefited 5500 …
Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman Emphasis on promotion of biofuels can be useful for solving rural energy problems. India is a country in transition with recent high rates of economic growth propelling it towards being a global economic power. The sustenance of this economic growth would depend on how the country is …
Hyderabad,, Sept. 1: Houses in as many as 38,000 new colonies, which do not have electricity connection, will get electricity line within the next two years. The Union government has agreed to provide funds for the electrification of all the "power-less" houses
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Praveen Bose / Bangalore July 25, 2008, 0:04 IST Rural women battling fumes and smoke from burning of biomass like wood, crop waste and animal dung during cooking may soon get some respite. Envirofit International, an US-based non-profit organisation, has introduced a range of clean-burning and biomass-based cooking …
They would help agriculturists during the next rabi season JAIPUR: Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam has set a target of releasing 23,000 new agricultural power connections in 12 districts of Rajasthan falling in its jurisdiction and decided to speed up the issue of connections from next month. Jaipur Discom Chairman and …
The burning of biomass fuels results in exposure to high levels of indoor air pollution, with consequent health effects. Possible interventions to reduce the exposure include changing cooking practices and introduction of smoke-free stoves supported by health education. Social, cultural and financial constraints are major challenges to implementation and success …
A new revolutionary, renewable and clean energy product is showing the light, quite literally in many rural homes. The Kisan Torches and Lanterns manufactured by the Freeplay Energy Group and distributed by IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd) need no batteries, no kerosene, no electricity and come with a very …
Groups of women in Zambia started providing energy services like battery charging, irrigation, milling and welding, to the community by using a replacing diesel with jatropha oil that they produce themselves.
