Featured in Chinese Connection – 04-2010

Empowering rural India

India: “Solar energy is beginning to light the lives of tens of millions of India’s energy-poor citizens,” said India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of the inauguration of the country’s National Solar Mission in January 2010. The example of a small indigenous community in Wayanad, Kerala, illustrates how solar power can be an effectively light up the way to development and social change.
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The sun sets early in South India. By 6.30 pm, it descends behind the mountain range in the distance. In many of the tribal villages in the hilly district of Wayanad, in the state of Kerala, it is the time for the lighting of kerosene lamps, or a fire that will also keep away snakes …

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