Lifestyle changing due to solar power in char areas

RANGPUR, Jan 11 (BSS): The lifestyle and socioeconomic condition of the isolated people living in the remote and hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin has been changing fast by v.irtue of solar power.

Some 150,000 char people are now using nearly 21,000 solar power units set up with assistance of different government and non-government organisations in char areas of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Bogra ands Sirajganj districts.

The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) provides assistance to the concerned government and non-government organisations in promoting and popularising renewable and green energy, including solar power units, to achieve the success.