Rahul shine finally gets Kalavati solar power

“Our village was made famous in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi but uninterrupted electricity has remained a distant dream. We saw how easily this solar panel was set up in just three days. Rahul is coming to Wardha. I would like to invite him to our village to see this,” said Sarpanch Anusuabai Kumbhre.

Kalavati,whose two daughters and two sons are among the 100 children studying at one of these schools,is ecstatic. “Now my children have a future,” she said.

Later,villagers signed the poster prepared by schoolchildren,demanding complete solar energy in the village. “There are a million Kalavatis waiting for power. This is an opportunity to provide them reliable and clean power by building a new and pro-poor energy infrastructure. We need to devolve policy making in the power sector by giving people a chance to choose their own destinies,” said Siddharth Pathak,a Greenpeace activist.

Jalka has already been adopted by Sulabh International with a rural reconstruction agenda that aims at creating vocational training and sanitation facilities,water and soil conservation work and training in low-cost agriculture.