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In era of Modern Age, where even a short power cut tends to disturb our entire day, there are so many villages in India that have never even experienced electricity. Rural electrification is a big issue in India and more than 18,000 Indian villages still await to be electrified. Such was the fate of Naro […]

In era of Modern Age, where even a short power cut tends to disturb our entire day, there are so many villages in India that have never even experienced electricity. Rural electrification is a big issue in India and more than 18,000 Indian villages still await to be electrified.

Such was the fate of Naro ka Kheda a small village in Rajasthan with 76 households until Prabh Singh, a Sikh student who pursued his higher education in Durham University Business School in England, took it upon himself to bring electricity to the village. His ‘Project Kiran’ electrified around 76 households in that village.
Until then, the villagers had to walk 7 s just to charge their mobile phones.

This project costed around 7 Lakhs, which was crowd-funded by the villagers and contributed by North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR), an autonomous society in the Indian government.
Prabh decided to stay while implementing his project with the villagers to experience their lifestyle & get a sense of benefit his project could bring.

The ‘easy to install and service’ electricity kit created in this project comprises of the following things.

A solar panel
Three light bulbs
A strip light
A charging socket

This ensured that the initiative was accessible to residents in remote locations.

Prabh Singh wants to take this project to other villages too. “I am in talks with an Indian central government agency to replicate the same project in 50 remote Indian villages based on the similar kind of revenue and service mechanism,” he said.

“The happiness and the amazement which I saw in those villagers’ eyes after they used electricity in their house for the first time is unmatched to any professional accomplishment that I could ever imagine achieving.” Added prabh Singh after turning their Dream into reality!

~ Source – huffingtonpost.co.uk