Just read a post on solar energy. A NPO in India called Sadguru Foundation supplied 100 solar lanterns to socially and economically disadvantaged households in 25 villages in the Dahod district of Gujarat state between January 2004 to December 2007. Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University and Dr. Minna Hsu from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan studied the effect (translate benefits) of the same to the households. And concluded that solar lanterns were not only ecologically beneficial but also safer and more economical.
Considering that the report is quite old now one would expect that the Indian government should have made all Indian villages Solar Lantern villages! But there has been no such progress. However, we hope that more people will make themselves aware of this technology and it will be used in rural households of various developing nations.
