Solar power reaches 21,000 people in Assam and Nagaland's remote villages

In Chirang district, Assam, a 27.5-kilowatt solar complex now hums at the centre of village life: a weaving unit where women artisans work, mental-health and physiotherapy clinics, and a youth centre drawing more than 800 young people. It is one piece of a solar programme by Apraava Energy and the SELCO Foundation that has electrified community, health and education facilities across Assam and Nagaland, improving daily life for more than 21,000 people and offsetting an expected 57 tonnes of CO2 a year — the rough equivalent of planting 2,580 trees annually. Seventeen forest-based learning centres serving over 700 children gained clean drinking water and sanitation, and in Nagaland's Kohima district, the villages of Jhakama and Zhadima received 22.32 kilowatts of systems powering five rural schools with more than 1,000 students, health centres and solar streetlights — light, arriving where the grid reaches last.

SDG 7 · Affordable and clean energy — Mechanism: infrastructure build