Monday, July 13, 2015

Teen lights up peoples' lives in remote Assam villages

Tezpur: A teenager from Mumbai has literally brought light straight into the lives of people in four rural villages of Assam's Sonitpur ground.

Dhruvraj Bhartia, a 17-year-old person in his teens from Jamnabai Narsee School while in Mumbai, chose to use his july vacation differently and decided to find people of remote villages while in Assam by providing solar powered lights high was no electricity so far.

His ideal is finally turning to reality the way Nezone Biscuits, Tezpur agreed to sostenitore the solar units in additional villages -- Kamarpathar, Sirajuli, Bordubi and Habigaon near Dhekiajuli -- where there was no electricity.

Since this year, Dhruvraj has been a senior youth delegate with Project Chirag, an proactivity of Chirag Rural Development Organisation, a Mumbai-based NGO.

Project Chirag, started by a group of college students, is going to be involved in providing solar garden lighting toward villages deprived of electricity as well as in the last five years has worked more than 45, 000 villagers while in six states of India.

During the past two days, Dhruvraj, along with Jyotirmoy Chatterji, co-founder of Project Chirag, small handedly set up 165 solar light units in the four villages.

"Renewable energy is the way forward while in rural India, 25 percent of Of india is seeped in poverty, if, perhaps each one of us able citizen are able to contribute towards benefiting one friends and family, we truly could develop a complete economy, " Dhruvraj said the meeting at one of the villages now a days.

Dhruvraj and Jyotirmoy also told the villagers how to use the gizmos and maintain it over a period of time.

The team anticipates scaling up the initiative further as well as , lighting up more villages in rural parts of Assam with support via corporate, individuals and in partnership among educational institutes, he said.

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