According to reports, the government has joined hands with IIT
Bombay to implement cost-effective solar powered lighting solutions for rural
population that will help save 36 million litres of kerosene and slash the
subsidy bill on the polluting fuel by aboutRs 30,000 crore a year.
The scheme will be implemented jointly by the ministries of
petroleum and new and renewable energy (MNRE), and funded through state-run oil
firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund, government officials said.
The ambitious programme will light up the lives of about 47% of the country’s
population that lives mostly in villages, they said.
