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 …
If a Planning Commission sponsored committee has its way, farmers will soon have to compulsorily pay for every unit of electricity consumed by them for irrigating the land. Arguing that farmers should be treated like any other consumer, the High Level Panel (HLP) has suggested that they pay at least …
Peerzada Abrar tracks a firm developing sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses Fifteen-year-old Shailaja C does not have to inhale toxic fumes from kerosene lamps anymore each time she sits down to study. A student of the Government High School in Kyasamballi, a remote village in …
PURULIA, 4 DEC: Around 1,500 students of several primary and upper primary schools in Ayodhya hills have been studying in classrooms that do not have either electricity or proper drinking water facilities for many years now due to lack of funds. There are around 22 primary and upper primary schools …
LUCKNOW: With poll bugles about to be sounded, Uttar Pradesh is at the receiving end of state and Central doles. After the Mayawati government, earlier this week, gave its nod to the transfer policy for teachers of primary schools in the state, the Centre has also decided to not stay …
This study highlights the development benefits resulting from access to electricity for rural and remote communities in Nepal. It is based on the successful expansion of the Rural Energy Development Programme executed by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre. Aimed at increasing access to decentralized energy systems in rural Nepal,the programme …
Statehood Day celebrations ushered in hopes of better amenities in two densely populated pockets of East Singhbhum district. Jugsalai residents had their long-awaited demand for clean drinking water fulfilled on Tuesday around 4pm with the online inauguration of a drinking water project to be operated by Jugsalai municipality. The residents …
Uttarakhand is situated on the southern slope of the Himalayan range, and the climate and vegetation vary greatly with elevation, from glaciers at the highest elevations to subtropical forests at the lower elevations. Geographical constraints and the scattered population has made it difficult for power distribution companies to extend the …
Biomass resources have significant potential for improving the rural energy access and economic scenarios in a country like India. These are the only sources of renewable energy available across the length and breadth of the country, thereby providing a local resource base for rural energy availability. Practically half of the …
India's estimated small hydro potential is over 15,000 MW. As of August 31, 2011, the segment had achieved a grid-connected capacity of 3,153.93 MW. The capacity addition target for 2011-12 is 350 MW, of which 111.3 MW had been added as of August 2011.
There is a myth in India that the cost of subsidy to provide energy services to the poor is very heavy. Very often, it is said that the poor are not willing to pay for the services they get and the government has no option but to go on increasing …
Although rural energy access is a recognized priority, the issue of energy access for urban poor populations has not been given the requisite focus or priority in research and policy. Nevertheless, there are examples of successful approaches in providing energy access to the poorest segments of society. The goal of …
Considering importance of electricity from socio-economic perspective, the Electricity Act 2003 contains supporting provisions for rural electrification and de-licensing rural power supply. The government also launched the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in 2005 to provide free electricity connections to 2.34 crore rural population below poverty line (BPL) in …
This document presents the description of visit to Sirsa District of Haryana, where solar energy project commissioned on April 15th 2011 under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (Off-grid Solar Photo voltaic applications), Although the entire state of Haryana is connected to the grid, the state (especially rural areas) experiences frequent …
Already struggling to meet demand, PSPCL will have to arrange 200-MW extra electricity Patiala: With the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) giving its nod for the release of 75,000 tubewell connections for the year 2011-12, the power requirement in the state would go up by 200 MW and approximately …
As energy is the source of all life, so modern energy can be the source of a better life for all. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) has focused attention on modern energy access for a decade, providing the international community with quantitative, objective analysis. This report, a …
Bhopal : A new facility has been introduced to facilitate consumers whose rural industrial category connections of ten kilowatt load have been disconnected permanently or temporarily due to non-payment of dues. According to Central Region Power Distribution Company, it has put in place a new facility to reconnect ten kilowatt …
This is Nepal's Investment Plan for funding under the Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program (SREP). The objectives of SREP in Nepal are to: leverage complementary credit, grant and private sector equity cofinancing, bring about transformational impacts through scaling up energy access using renewable energy technologies (RETs), poverty reduction, gender and social …
A carefully-crafted mission can bring cooking fuel and electricity to the deprived households in the hinterland India can, rightfully, derive satisfaction from the success in getting the Jawaharlal Solar Energy Mission smoothly off the ground, and that too in a short period of time with competitive large-scale private participation. The …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to electrify 1,900 villages with alternative energy sources through the Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA). This was decided at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here. Official sources said work has started for electrification of 770 villages. Besides, 530 …
Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) will install 368 biogas plants in different rural areas by the June 2012 under the project "Development and Promotion of Biogas Technology for meeting domestic fuel needs of rural areas and production of Bio-fertiliser". This project was launched in 2008 through which 2500 …
